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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *huntōną (“to hunt, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *kend- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- Bible, Genesis xxvii. 5
- Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
- Tennyson
- Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
- 2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound →ISBN, page 10:
- State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
- Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
- Bible, Genesis xxvii. 5
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- William Shakespeare
- He after honour hunts, I after love.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
- 2004, Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women →ISBN, page 119:
- My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
- 2011, Ann Major, Nobody's Child →ISBN:
- What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
- The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- William Shakespeare
- (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- to hunt down a criminal
- He was hunted from the parish.
- (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- Addison
- He hunts a pack of dogs.
- Did you hunt that pony last week?
- Addison
- (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- He hunts the woods, or the country.
- (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to chase down prey
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to search for something
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Noun[edit]
hunt (plural hunts)
- The act of hunting.
- A hunting expedition.
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization).
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the act of hunting, shooting
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hunting expedition
organization
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Anagrams[edit]
Bavarian[edit]
Noun[edit]
hunt ?
References[edit]
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
Cimbrian[edit]
Noun[edit]
hunt m
References[edit]
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Estonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Most likely from Middle Low German hunt. Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-Germanic *hundaz.
Noun[edit]
hunt (genitive hundi, partitive hunti)
Declension[edit]
Declension of hunt (type riik)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | hunt | hundid |
genitive | hundi | huntide |
partitive | hunti | hunte / huntisid |
illative | hunti / hundisse | huntidesse |
inessive | hundis | huntides |
elative | hundist | huntidest |
allative | hundile | huntidele |
adessive | hundil | huntidel |
ablative | hundilt | huntidelt |
translative | hundiks | huntideks |
terminative | hundini | huntideni |
essive | hundina | huntidena |
abessive | hundita | huntideta |
comitative | hundiga | huntidega |
Synonyms[edit]
Mòcheno[edit]
Noun[edit]
hunt ?
References[edit]
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
Old High German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *hundaz, whence also Old English hund, Old Norse hundr.
Noun[edit]
hunt m
Declension[edit]
Declension of hunt (masculine a-stem)
case | singular | plural |
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nominative | hunt | hunta |
accusative | hunt | hunta |
genitive | huntes | hunto |
dative | hunte | huntum |
instrumental | huntu | — |
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