Definition of the word hunt

Verb



The wolf was hunting its prey.



These birds have been hunted almost to extinction.



a gun used for hunting squirrels



He likes to hunt and fish.



She hunted around in the closet for a pair of shoes.



Police hunted the escaped prisoners through several states.

Noun



They went on a hunt.



We finally found a good restaurant after a long hunt.

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What’s more, customers have gotten used to hopping among apps to hunt down titles that bounce between them.


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One solution, a U.S. defense official said, has been to tap into existing global stockpiles to hunt down the munitions some countries hold in reserve.


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Kola Shippentower-Thompson, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon, hunted with her husband, Tommy Thompson, who is the Umatilla tribal game warden, and her cousin, Dion Denny.


—Jim Robbins Michael Hanson, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023




No Time to Die sees the retired British superspy pulled back into the game by old ally Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) to hunt down the scientist behind a deadly new nanobot weapon.


—Wired Staff, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023




Throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties, find colorful plastic eggs, by the thousands, dispersed throughout athletic fields and in parks for kids to hunt down.


—Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023




Since 2014, gray wolves have been protected under the California Endangered Species Act, and hunting them is prohibited.


—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2023




Since 2014, gray wolves have been protected under the California Endangered Species Act, and hunting them is prohibited.


—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2023



In the mix: Three of her kids doing an Easter egg hunt, and a photo of the 49-year-old posing topless by a pool with bunny ears on.


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For the 10th year, Faith Lutheran Church at 3000 Liberty St. in Aurora hosted an Easter egg hunt with a helicopter dropping some of the eggs to be collected.


—David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023




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—Michelle Toh, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023




Land is hard to come by in Boston, and as the city seeks to dig out of a housing crisis that is deepening by the day, planners are on the hunt for new ways to find space for apartments.


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So, when on the hunt for a light layer for the in-between season, Todd Synder instantly came to mind.


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—Breanna Bell, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023




That pursuit should make clear that a team that has been otherwise nearly motionless in free agency is on the hunt for a cornerback opposite Marlon Humphrey.


—Michael Middlehurst-schwartz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023




An additional reviewer was on the hunt for the scent for months in stores, and finally found it on Amazon.


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verb (used with object)

to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.

to pursue with force, hostility, etc., in order to capture (often followed by down): They hunted him down and hanged him.

to search for; seek; endeavor to obtain or find (often followed by up or out): to hunt up the most promising candidates for the position.

to search (a place) thoroughly.

to scour (an area) in pursuit of game.

to use or direct (a horse, hound, etc.) in chasing game.

Change Ringing. to alter the place of (a bell) in a hunt.

verb (used without object)

to engage in the pursuit, capture, or killing of wild animals for food or in sport.

to make a search or quest (often followed by for or after).

Change Ringing. to alter the place of a bell in its set according to certain rules.

noun

an act or practice of hunting game or other wild animals.

a search; a seeking or endeavor to find.

a pursuit.

a group of persons associated for the purpose of hunting; an association of hunters.

an area hunted over.

Change Ringing. a regularly varying order of permutations in the ringing of a group of from five to twelve bells.

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Origin of hunt

before 1000; (v.) Middle English hunten,Old English huntian, derivative of hunta hunter, akin to hentan to pursue; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.

OTHER WORDS FROM hunt

hunt·a·ble, adjectivehunt·ed·ly, adverbouthunt, verb (used with object)o·ver·hunt, verb (used with object)

un·hunt·a·ble, adjectiveun·hunt·ed, adjective

Words nearby hunt

hunks, hunky, hunky-dory, Hunnish, Huns, hunt, hunt and peck, huntaway, hunt board, hunt button, hunt down

Other definitions for hunt (2 of 2)

noun

(James Henry) Leigh [lee], /li/, 1784–1859, English essayist, poet, and editor.

Richard Morris, 1828–95, U.S. architect.

(William) Holman [hohl-muhn], /ˈhoʊl mən/, 1827–1910, English painter.

William Morris, 1824–79, U.S. painter (brother of Richard Morris Hunt).

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Words related to hunt

exploration, hunting, inquiry, interrogation, investigation, probe, prosecution, pursuit, quest, race, raid, capture, drag, fish, kill, poach, pursue, seek, shoot, snare

How to use hunt in a sentence

  • NSO sells Pegasus with the same pitch arms dealers use to sell conventional weapons, positioning it as a crucial aid in the hunt for terrorists and criminals.

  • Lawrence Corey, a virologist from Fred Hutchinson who was tapped by Warp Speed in July to head the US trials, says the vaccine hunt is moving quickly because scientists have been “planning for success.”

  • The letter, from Elliott deputy John Hemmerling, didn’t just promise a leak hunt for Hargrove’s sources.

  • The Arizona Diamondbacks were in the wild-card hunt a year ago and added Madison Bumgarner, Starling Marte and Kole Calhoun in the offseason to bolster their rotation and lineup.

  • Others are on the hunt for what animal the virus jumped into people from, which can help scientists understand how the virus made the jump and guide policies to monitor those animals for related coronaviruses.

  • The kid from next door drops by and Marvin talks to him about the stunts in his latest film, Death Hunt.

  • The Federal Duck Stamp Act raised the fee on stamps needed to hunt waterfowl on federal land from $15 to $25.

  • Jordanian intelligence played an important role in the hunt that eventually killed Zarqawi in Iraq in 2006.

  • A team of cops swarmed the apartment in the hunt for a potential homicide suspect they believed was hiding in the residences.

  • In her mind, the entire ordeal was a witch-hunt led by the local authorities.

  • Mrs. Jolly Robin had often wished—when she was trying to feed a rapidly-growing family—that she could hunt forp.

  • When the whole hunt is hunting up, each single change is made between the whole hunt, and the next bell above it.

  • With these ten Hunts, the first change in each Peal is made by hunting the whole Hunt up.

  • This Peal (by the Rules aforesaid) may be Rang with any whole hunt, half hunt, and quarter hunt.

  • The half hunt is alwayes one of the two hindmost bells which makes every bob-change.

British Dictionary definitions for hunt (1 of 2)

verb

to seek out and kill or capture (game or wild animals) for food or sport

(intr often foll by for) to look (for); search (for)to hunt for a book; to hunt up a friend

(tr) to use (hounds, horses, etc) in the pursuit of wild animals, game, etcto hunt a pack of hounds

(tr) to search or draw (country) to hunt wild animals, game, etcto hunt the parkland

(tr often foll by down) to track or chase diligently, esp so as to captureto hunt down a criminal

(tr; usually passive) to persecute; hound

(intr) (of a gauge indicator, engine speed, etc) to oscillate about a mean value or position

(intr) (of an aircraft, rocket, etc) to oscillate about a flight path

noun

the act or an instance of hunting

chase or search, esp of animals or game

the area of a hunt

a party or institution organized for the pursuit of wild animals or game, esp for sport

the participants in or members of such a party or institution

in the hunt informal having a chance of successthat result keeps us in the hunt See also hunt down, hunt up

Derived forms of hunt

huntedly, adverb

Word Origin for hunt

Old English huntian; related to Old English hentan, Old Norse henda to grasp

British Dictionary definitions for hunt (2 of 2)

noun

Henry, known as Orator Hunt . 1773–1835, British radical, who led the mass meeting that ended in the Peterloo Massacre (1819)

(William) Holman. 1827–1910, British painter; a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848)

James. 1947–93, British motor-racing driver: world champion 1976

(Henry Cecil) John, Baron. 1910–98, British army officer and mountaineer. He planned and led the expedition that first climbed Mount Everest (1953)

(James Henry) Leigh (liː). 1784–1859, British poet and essayist: a founder of The Examiner (1808) in which he promoted the work of Keats and Shelley

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Other Idioms and Phrases with hunt

see happy hunting ground; high and low, (hunt); run with (the hare, hunt with the hounds).

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *huntōną (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“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.
In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /hʌnt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌnt

Verb[edit]

hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)

  1. (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.

    • 1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 100:

      Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, / Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall.

    • 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.

  2. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

    • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

      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.

  3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

    to hunt down a criminal

    He was hunted from the parish.

  4. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

    • 1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 104; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

      He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.

    Did you hunt that pony last week?

  5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

    He hunts the woods, or the country.

  6. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
  7. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
  8. (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.

    • 1995, Bernard Wilkie, Special Effects in Television, page 174:

      […] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed.

Derived terms[edit]

  • headhunt, head-hunt
  • Hunt
  • hunt and peck
  • hunt down
  • hunt out
  • hunt the gowk
  • hunt the slipper
  • hunt up
  • hunt where the ducks are
  • hunt where the ducks were
  • hunt-and-peck
  • hunted
  • Hunter
  • hunter
  • hunteress
  • hunting
  • huntress
  • Huntress
  • Huntsman
  • huntsman
  • job-hunt
  • proverbs hunt in pairs
  • run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
  • still-hunt
  • that dog won’t hunt
  • that old dog won’t hunt
  • you can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

Translations[edit]

to chase down prey

  • Abkhaz: ашәарыцара (aŝʷarəcara)
  • Ainu: ラマンテ (ramante), イラマンテ (iramante)
  • Albanian: gjuaj (sq)
  • Andi: чониду (čonidu)
  • Arabic: اِصْطَادَ‎ (iṣṭāda), صَادَ‎ (ar) (ṣāda)
  • Armenian: որսալ (hy) (orsal)
  • Assamese: চিকাৰ কৰা (sikar kora)
  • Avar: чан гьабизе (čan habize)
  • Azerbaijani: ovlamaq (az)
  • Basque: ehiza
  • Belarusian: палява́ць impf (paljavácʹ), лаві́ць impf (lavícʹ)
  • Bulgarian: ловя́ (bg) impf (lovjá), ловувам (lovuvam)
  • Burmese: အမဲလိုက် (my) (a.mai:luik)
  • Catalan: caçar (ca); caça (Algherese)
  • Chechen: талла эха (talla exa)
  • Cherokee: ᎦᏃᎭᎵᏙᎭ (ganohalidoha)
  • Cheyenne: -émȯhóne
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 打獵／打猎 (daa2 lip6) (intransitive)
    Mandarin: 打獵／打猎 (zh) (dǎliè) (intransitive), 獵取／猎取 (zh) (lièqǔ) (transitive), 捕食 (zh) (bǔshí) (transitive)
  • Czech: lovit (cs)
  • Danish: jage, gå på jagt efter
  • Dutch: jagen (nl)
  • Esperanto: ĉasi (eo)
  • Estonian: jahtima, küttima
  • Extremaduran: cazal, caçal
  • Finnish: metsästää (fi), jahdata (fi)
  • French: chasser (fr)
  • Friulian: cjaçâ, čhačâ
  • Galician: cazar (gl)
  • Gallurese: cacciggjà
  • Georgian: ნადირობა (nadiroba)
  • German: jagen (de)
  • Greek: κυνηγώ (el) (kynigó), θηρεύω (el) (thirévo)
    Ancient: θηρεύω (thēreúō), θηράω (thēráō), κυνηγετέω (kunēgetéō)
  • Hadza: please add this translation if you can
  • Hawaiian: hahai, ʻimi
  • Hindi: शिकार करना (śikār karnā)
  • Hungarian: vadászik (hu)
  • Icelandic: veiða (is)
  • Indonesian: buru (id)
  • Ingrian: jahtiita
  • Interlingua: chassar
  • Irish: seilg
    Old Irish: ad·claid
  • Italian: cacciare (it)
  • Japanese: 狩る (ja) (かる, karu)
  • Javanese: buru (jv)
  • Kaingang: ẽkrénh
  • Kazakh: аң аулау (kk) (añ aulau), аулау (aulau)
  • Khmer: បរបាញ់ (bɑɑ bañ)
  • Korean: 사냥하다 (ko) (sanyanghada)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: ڕاودان‎ (rawdan)
  • Kyrgyz: аң уулоо (aŋ uuloo), уулоо (ky) (uuloo)
  • Lao: ລ່າ (lā)
  • Latgalian: medeit
  • Latin: vēnor
  • Latvian: medīt (lv)
  • Lithuanian: medžioti
  • Lombard: cascià (lmo)
  • Low German:
    German Low German: jagen
  • Luxembourgish: joen (lb)
  • Macedonian: лови impf (lovi)
  • Malay: berburu, memburu
  • Malayalam: വേട്ടയാടുക (vēṭṭayāṭuka), നായാടുക (ml) (nāyāṭuka)
  • Maltese: kaċċa
  • Manchu: ᠠᠪᠠᠯᠠᠮᠪᡳ (abalambi)
  • Maori: whaiwhai, whakangau (refers to hunting with dogs), whakangangahu (with dogs), whakarapu
  • Mongolian: ан агнах (an agnax)
  • Nepali: सिकार गर्नु (sikār garnu)
  • Ngunawal: gudali
  • Norwegian: jakte
  • Occitan: caçar (oc)
  • Old English: huntian
  • Old Javanese: buru
  • Oromo: adamsuu
  • Ossetian: цуан кӕнын (cwan kænyn)
  • Persian: شکار کردن‎ (šekâr kardan), صید کردن‎ (fa) (seyd kardan)
  • Polish: polować (pl)
  • Portuguese: caçar (pt)
  • Quechua: chakuy
  • Rapa Nui: poko
  • Romanian: vâna (ro)
  • Romansch: chatschar
  • Russian: охо́титься (ru) impf (oxótitʹsja), лови́ть (ru) impf (lovítʹ)
  • Sardinian:
    Campidanese: cassai
  • Sassarese: catzà, catzare
  • Scottish Gaelic: sealg
  • Serbo-Croatian: терати
    Cyrillic: ловити
    Roman: loviti (sh)
  • Sicilian: cacciari (scn)
  • Slovak: poľovať impf, loviť impf
  • Slovene: loviti (sl) impf
  • Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: góńtwowaś
  • Spanish: cazar (es)
  • Sundanese: bujeng
  • Swahili: kuwinda
  • Swedish: jaga (sv)
  • Tajik: шикор кардан (šikor kardan), сайд кардан (sayd kardan)
  • Tarantino: caccià
  • Telugu: వేటాడు (te) (vēṭāḍu)
  • Tetum: kasa
  • Thai: ล่าสัตว์ (lâa sàt), ล่า (th) (lâa)
  • Tibetan: རི་དྭགས་བརྒྱབ (ri dwags brgyab)
  • Turkish: avlamak (tr) [-ar]
  • Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
  • Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎄 (ṣd)
  • Ukrainian: полюва́ти impf (poljuváty), лови́ти impf (lovýty)
  • Urdu: شکار کرنا‎ (śikār karnā), صید کرنا‎ (said karnā)
  • Uyghur: ئوۋلىماق‎ (owlimaq), ئوۋ قىلماق‎ (ow qilmaq)
  • Uzbek: ovlamoq (uz), ov qilmoq
  • Venetian: casar, caçar, cazhar
  • Vietnamese: săn bắn (vi)
  • Walloon: tchessî (wa)
  • Welsh: hela (cy)
  • West Frisian: jeie
  • White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
  • Yakut: бултаа (bultaa)
  • Zealandic: jaege
  • Zhuang: dwk, lieb
  • Zigula: kala
  • ǃXóõ: !qāhe, gǀkxʻâã

to search for something

  • Catalan: caçar (ca)
  • Czech: hledat (cs)
  • Danish: søge (da), lede
  • Dutch: zoeken (nl)
  • Estonian: jahtima, otsima (et)
  • Finnish: metsästää (fi), jahdata (fi)
  • French: chercher (fr)
  • Galician: buscar (gl)
  • German: suchen (de)
  • Greek: ψάχνω (el) (psáchno), αναζητώ (el) (anazitó)
  • Hungarian: vadászik (hu), kutat (hu)
  • Icelandic: leita (is)
  • Indonesian: buru (id)
  • Italian: essere a caccia, essere alla ricerca
  • Japanese: 探す (ja) (sagasu)
  • Latin: vēnor
  • Low German:
    German Low German: söken (nds)
  • Maori: kimikimi, ngaropoko (in the game of hide-and-seek)
  • Norwegian: jakte, søke (no)
  • Portuguese: caçar (pt), vear (pt)
  • Russian: разы́скивать (ru) impf (razýskivatʹ), иска́ть (ru) impf (iskátʹ)
  • Spanish: buscar (es)
  • Sundanese: bujeng
  • Swahili: tafuta

Noun[edit]

hunt (plural hunts)

  1. The act of hunting.

    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:

      Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people’s wealth.

  2. A hunting expedition.
  3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
  4. A pack of hunting dogs.

Derived terms[edit]

  • bunny hunt
  • canned hunt
  • dog in the hunt
  • drag hunt
  • Easter egg hunt
  • egg hunt
  • fox hunt
  • hunt saboteur
  • Hunt’s Cross
  • in the hunt
  • Internet hunt
  • on the hunt
  • pixel hunt
  • scavenger hunt
  • snipe hunt
  • trail hunt
  • treasure hunt
  • witch hunt

Translations[edit]

the act of hunting, shooting

  • Albanian: gjueti (sq) f
  • Arabic: صَيْد‎ (ṣayd), مُطارَدَة‎ (muṭārada)
    Moroccan Arabic: صيّادة‎ f
  • Armenian: որս (hy) (ors)
  • Avar: чан (čan)
  • Azerbaijani: ov (az)
  • Bashkir: ау (aw)
  • Basque: ehiza
  • Belarusian: палява́нне n (paljavánnje)
  • Bikol Central: mangayam
  • Bulgarian: лов (bg) m (lov)
  • Catalan: caça (ca) f, cacera (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 打獵／打猎 (daa2 lip6)
    Mandarin: 狩獵／狩猎 (zh) (shòuliè)
  • Czech: lov (cs) m
  • Danish: jagt (da) c
  • Dutch: jacht (nl) m
  • Erzya: оцина (oćina)
  • Estonian: jaht (et)
  • Ewe: adedada
  • Finnish: metsästys (fi), jahti (fi)
  • French: chasse (fr) f
  • Galician: caza (gl) f
  • German: Jagd (de) f
  • Greek: κυνήγι (el) n (kynígi), θήρα (el) (thíra)
    Ancient: κυνηγίς f (kunēgís), ᾰ̓́γρᾱ f (ágrā), θήρα f (thḗra)
  • Hebrew: מצוד‎ (he) m (matsód), ציד‎ (he) m (tsáyid)
  • Hindi: शिकार (hi) m (śikār)
  • Hungarian: vadászat (hu)
  • Icelandic: veiði (is) f
  • Ingrian: jahti
  • Interlingua: chassa
  • Italian: caccia (it) f
  • Japanese: 狩り (ja) (kari), 狩猟 (ja) (shuryō)
  • Kannada: ಬೇಟೆ (kn) (bēṭe)
  • Kazakh: аң аулау (kk) (añ aulau), аңшылық (añşylyq), аулау (aulau)
  • Korean: 사냥 (ko) (sanyang)
  • Kumyk: ав (aw)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: نێچیر‎ (ckb) (nêçîr), ڕاو‎ (ckb) (raw)
    Northern Kurdish: nêçîr (ku)
    Southern Kurdish: نەچیر‎ (neçîr)
  • Kyrgyz: аң (ky) (aŋ), аң уулоо (aŋ uuloo)
  • Latin: venatio (la) f
  • Latvian: medības m
  • Lithuanian: medžioklė f
  • Luxembourgish: Juegd f
  • Macedonian: лов m (lov)
  • Malayalam: വേട്ട (ml) (vēṭṭa), നായാട്ട് (ml) (nāyāṭṭŭ)
  • Manchu: ᠠᠪᠠ (aba)
  • Mongolian:
    Cyrillic: ан (mn) (an), ан гөрөө (an göröö), агнуур (mn) (agnuur)
    Mongolian: ᠠᠩ (aŋ), ᠠᠩ
    ᠭᠥᠷᠦᠭᠡ     (aŋ görüge), ᠠᠩᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (aŋnaɣur)
  • Norwegian: jakt (no) m or f
  • Old English: huntoþ m, huntung f
  • Old Turkic: 𐰉‎ (b¹ /ab/)
  • Oriya: ଶିକାର (or) (śikarô)
  • Ossetian: цуан (cwan)
  • Pashto: صيد‎ m (sayd), ښکار‎ (ps) m (ẍkâr)
  • Persian: شکار‎ (fa) (šekâr), صید‎ (fa) (seyd), نخچیر‎ (fa) (naxčir)
  • Plautdietsch: Jacht f
  • Polish: polowanie (pl) n, myślistwo (pl) n, łów (pl) m
  • Portuguese: caça (pt) (Brazil)
  • Romanian: vânătoare (ro)
  • Russian: охо́та (ru) f (oxóta), ло́вля (ru) f (lóvlja), лов (ru) m (lov)
  • Sardinian:
    Campidanese: càssa
    Logudorese: zera, catza
  • Sassarese: catza
  • Scottish Gaelic: sealg f
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: лов m
    Roman: lov (sh) m
  • Slovak: lov m
  • Slovene: lov (sl) m
  • Somali: ugaadhsi
  • Spanish: caza (es) f
  • Swedish: jakt (sv) c
  • Tajik: шикор (tg) (šikor), сайд (sayd)
  • Tamil: வேட்டை (ta) (vēṭṭai)
  • Tatar: ау (tt) (aw)
  • Telugu: వేట (te) (vēṭa)
  • Tocharian B: werke
  • Turkish: av (tr)
  • Turkmen: aw (tk)
  • Ukrainian: полюва́ння (uk) n (poljuvánnja)
  • Urdu: شکار‎ m (šikār), صید‎ f (said)
  • Uyghur: ئوۋ‎ (ow)
  • Uzbek: ov (uz), ovlash, ov qilish
  • Vietnamese: sự săn bắn (vi)
  • Volapük: yagön (vo)
  • Walloon: tchesse (wa) f
  • Yagnobi: шикор (šikor)
  • Yakut: булт (bult)

hunting expedition

  • Catalan: cacera (ca) f, caça (ca) f
  • Czech: lov (cs) m, hon (cs) m
  • Esperanto: ĉasado
  • Finnish: metsästysretki, metsästys (fi)
  • Greek: κυνήγι (el) n (kynígi)
  • Icelandic: veiðiferð f
  • Italian: caccia (it) f, spedizione di caccia
  • Krymchak: ав (av)
  • Luxembourgish: Juegd f
  • Malayalam: നായാട്ട് (ml) (nāyāṭṭŭ)
  • Norwegian: jakt (no) m or f
  • Old English: huntoþ m
  • Old Portuguese: caça
  • Old Turkic: 𐰉‎ (b¹ /ab/)
  • Plautdietsch: Jacht f
  • Portuguese: caçada (pt) f
  • Scottish Gaelic: sealg f

organization

  • Bulgarian: ловна дружинка (lovna družinka)
  • Czech: lovecký (cs) spolek (cs) m
  • Esperanto: ĉasaĵaro
  • Finnish: metsästysseura (fi)

Anagrams[edit]

  • Thun

Bavarian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • Hund

Noun[edit]

hunt ?

  1. (Sappada, Sauris, Timau) dog

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]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Cognate with German Hund, English hound.

Noun[edit]

hunt m (plural hunte, diminutive hüntle, feminine hünten)

  1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) dog
  2. (Sette Comuni) firing pin

Further reading[edit]

  • “hunt” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole 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)

  1. wolf, grey wolf

Declension[edit]

Declension of hunt (type riik)

Synonyms[edit]

  • susi
  • untsantsakas
  • hall hunt

Mòcheno[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz (“dog”). Cognate with German Hund, English hound.

Noun[edit]

hunt m

  1. dog

References[edit]

  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Old Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun[edit]

hunt m

  1. dog

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Dutch: hont
    • Dutch: hond

Further reading[edit]

  • “hunt (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun[edit]

hunt m

  1. dog

Declension[edit]

Declension of hunt (masculine a-stem)

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle High German: hunt
    • Alemannic German: Hund
      Alsatian: Hund
      Swabian: Hond
      Walser: hun, hund, hunn, hònn
    • Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: hunt
      Mòcheno: hunt
      Udinese: hunt
    • Central Franconian: Hond, Honk; Hunk, Honk
      Hunsrik: Hund
      Kölsch: Hunk, Hungk
    • German: Hund
      • → Esperanto: hundo
        • Ido: hundo
    • Luxembourgish: Hond
    • Vilamovian: hund
    • Yiddish: הונט‎ (hunt)
Источник

Other forms: hunting; hunted; hunts

To hunt is to track and kill an animal for fun or food. In Italy, they use pigs to hunt truffles. In the US, they use shotguns to hunt deer.

Some humans hunt animals with a gun or a bow and arrow, and some animals hunt smaller animals — the way a wolf hunts rabbits or a cat hunts birds. You can hunt in a non-lethal way as well, like when you hunt all over your house for your lost car keys, or your little brother hunts for you during a game of hide-and-seek. The Old English root of hunt is huntian, «chase game.»

Definitions of hunt

  1. verb

    pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

    “Goering often
    hunted wild boars in Poland”

    “The Duke
    hunted in these woods”

    synonyms:

    hunt down, run, track down

    run

    cause an animal to move fast

  2. verb

    search (an area) for prey

    “The King used to
    hunt these forests”

    Synonyms:

    hunt down, run, track down

    pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

  3. noun

    an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

  4. noun

    the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

  5. noun

    the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

  6. “She
    hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them”

  7. noun

    the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

  8. noun

    an instance of searching for something

    “the
    hunt for submarines”

  9. verb

    pursue or chase relentlessly

  10. verb

    chase away, with as with force

  11. verb

    oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

    “The oscillator
    hunts about the correct frequency”

  12. verb

    yaw back and forth about a flight path

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Britannica Dictionary definition of HUNT

1 

:

to chase and kill (wild animals) for food or pleasure

[+ object]

  • The wolf was hunting its prey.

  • These birds have been hunted almost to extinction.

  • a gun used for hunting squirrels

[no object]

  • He likes to hunt and fish.

2 

:

to search for something or someone very carefully and thoroughly

[no object]

  • She hunted around in the closet for a pair of shoes.

— often + for

  • The police are hunting for a killer.

  • He’s hunting for a new apartment.

  • We went to the mall to hunt for bargains.

[+ object]

  • Police hunted the escaped prisoners through several states.

  • (US) We went to the mall to hunt bargains.

1 

hunt (something) down

or

hunt down (something)

:

to succeed in finding (something)

  • It may take me a while to hunt down the phone number.

2 

hunt (someone) down

or

hunt down (someone)

:

to find and capture (someone)

  • The killer was hunted down with help from his relatives.

hunt (something) out

or

hunt out (something)

:

to find (something) after searching for it

  • It took a while to hunt out the papers, but we finally found everything we needed.

hunt (someone or something) up

or

hunt up (someone or something)

:

to succeed in finding (someone or something)

  • You can hunt up a good car at a fair price if you try.

Britannica Dictionary definition of HUNT

[count]

1 

:

an occasion when people hunt wild animals

  • They went on a hunt.

  • a bear/fox/pheasant hunt

2 

:

an act of searching for something or someone

  • We finally found a good restaurant after a long hunt.

  • The hunt for the escaped convicts continues. = The hunt is still on for the escaped convicts. = The police are still on the hunt [=are still searching] for the escaped convicts.


—

see also scavenger hunt, treasure hunt, witch hunt

3 

chiefly British

:

a group of people who hunt foxes together

:

having a chance to win or succeed in a contest or competition

  • At this point in the season, both teams are still in the hunt. [=both teams have a chance of winning the championship]

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