Halloween Words

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List of common words for Halloween

  • trick or treat: What the children say when they do trick-or-treating on Halloween. Trick-or-treating is an activity in which children dress up as magical or frightening creatures from a story on Halloween, and visit people’s homes to demand sweets.
  • treats (candies): Sweets given to children when they do trick-or-treating
  • costume: A set of clothes worn in order to look like someone or something else, especially for a party or as part of an entertainment.
  • jack o lantern: A pumpkin with its seeds removed and cut with holes shaped like eyes, a nose and a mouth, and lit with a candle inside.
  • ghost: The spirit of a dead person imagined as visiting the living and usually appearing as a pale, almost transparent form.
  • zombie: A dead person brought back to life without the ability to speak or move easily.
  • mummy: A dead body that has been preserved from decay by being treated with special substances before being wrapped in cloth.
  • witch: A woman who is believed to have magical powers and who uses them to harm or help other people.
  • witch hat: A hat with wide brim and conical crown used by witches.
  • witch broom: An old broom used by witches when they fly.
  • fairy: An imaginary creature with magic powers, usually represented as a very small person with wings.
  • vampire: A dead person who comes back to life and sucks blood from other people at night.
  • pirate: A person who sails in a ship and attacks other ships in order to steal from them.
  • skeleton: The frame of bones supporting a human or animal body.
  • spider: A small creature with eight thin legs that catches insects in a web.
  • spider web: A structure like a net of sticky silk threads made by a spider for catching insects.
  • bat: A small, flying animal with big ears and wings of skin.
  • coffin: a long box in which the body of a dead person is buried or burned.
  • graveyard: A place, often next to a church, where dead people are buried.
  • haunted house: A house often visited by ghosts.

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