Meaning of the word hunt

English[edit]

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]

Translations[edit]

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]

Translations[edit]

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]

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]

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)

охота, поиски, охотиться, преследовать, травить, гнать

существительное ↓

глагол ↓

Словосочетания

a gun used for hunting squirrels — ружьё для охоты на белок  
the hunt for the missing child — поиски пропавшего ребенка  
to hunt in couples — быть неразлучными  
to hunt game — охотиться на дичь  
to hunt the gowk — выполнять бессмысленное поручение  
to run / hold with the hare and hunt with the hounds — служить и нашим и вашим  
hunt buffalo — охотиться на бизонов  
to hunt the escaped prisoner — преследовать сбежавшего заключенного  
hunt the woods — прочесывать лес  
to organize / stage a hunt — организовывать охоту  
hunt for wild animals — охота на диких животных  
hunt saboteur — тот, кто выступает против охоты на лис  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Фразовые глаголы

hunt away — прогонять
hunt down — выслеживать, преследовать, поймать, затравить
hunt out — отыскать, выискивать, откопать
hunt up — отыскать, откопать, выискивать

Возможные однокоренные слова

hunter  — охотник, ловец, искатель, охотничья собака, гунтер, карманные часы с крышкой
hunting  — охота, травля, охотничий

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: hunt
he/she/it: hunts
ing ф. (present participle): hunting
2-я ф. (past tense): hunted
3-я ф. (past participle): hunted

noun
ед. ч.(singular): hunt
мн. ч.(plural): hunts

All these good teams have been eliminated from the title hunt because President Obama has failed to deliver on his promise to create a college football playoff. ❋ Joel Achenbach (2010)

Chelsea kept themselves in the title hunt with this victory in a pulsating clash at Stamford Bridge. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Manchester United is very much in the title hunt in Europe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hamilton retained second in the title hunt after a fourth place at Istanbul Park that the Englishman had to work hard for. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Vegas doggedly remained in the title hunt during Sunday’s final round before his bold bid for a second consecutive PGA Tour title ended when he dumped his second shot into water at the par-five last. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was somehow fitting that he stayed in the title hunt with a 71 on Friday, leaving him in a group of four only a shot behind leaders Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland and Lucas Glover of the United States. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After missing his first five cuts, Stallings was in the title hunt at the Transitions Championship until a late double bogey. ❋ Unknown (2011)

FSU won’t ever dominate the conference the way it did during its first 10 years in the league, but as long as Fisher keeps doing what he’s doing, the Seminoles should be in the title hunt most years. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He remains in the title hunt, however, after coming into this week with a major question mark hanging over his emotional state following revelations about his extra-marital affairs at the end of last year. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After taking some time off, he rebounded with a solid win over Randy Couture at UFC 102, and now will have to defeat the rising Velasquez — a cardio and wrestling machine — to get back in the title hunt one more time. ❋ Mike Chiappetta (2010)

Rather than being in the title hunt, Wenger is now looking over his shoulder at Spurs and Manchester City, with the aim now of simply hanging onto third place. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While it was clearly out of the title hunt before the start of the skate race at the Frisco Nordic Center, Aspen’s nordic skiers performed admirably. ❋ Jon Maletz The Aspen Times Aspen (2010)

Pettersson put himself in the title hunt after firing a course-record 60 to claim a share of second. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sir Alex Ferguson was undoubtedly the happier of the three managers still mathematically in the title hunt after a weekend of high drama ❋ GMF Editor (2010)

«Are you [coming out] to hunt some [meat] [tonight]?» ❋ Bonhilda (2009)

When some people play [GTA3], they only [Hunt] black people. Thus, [hunts] were born ❋ Mateo (2004)

hunt like [cunt] like [vagina]? ❋ STABBA STABBA (2009)

[fuck me sideways] martha look at that [dirty hippy] HUNT pissing up [the shop] window. ❋ Badgerchops (2008)

I’ve got a bad [case] of [the hunts], really need [a cigarette]!!! ❋ BigCat2782 (2016)

Q: «How were you feeling [after all] that [delicious] [Canadian Hunter] last night?»
A: «I got hunted.» ❋ Been Hunted (2010)

[me and] [my dad] went hunting this [weekend] ❋ WHITE MIKE (2005)

[Going hunting] with Dick Cheney is about the fastest way to get oneself shot, since [going hunting] with him is an [accident waiting to happen]. ❋ Jesster79 (2006)

they’re on the hunt ❋ Swoopa (2009)

[wow] those [hunts] are [kool]… ❋ Jeff Hunt (2005)