Dictionary Definition
Hunt
Noun
1 Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter
(1827-1910) [syn: Holman Hunt,
William
Holman Hunt]
2 United States architect (1827-1895) [syn:
Richard
Morris Hunt]
3 British writer who defended the romanticism of
Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: Leigh Hunt,
James
Henry Leigh Hunt]
4 an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
[syn: hunt
club]
5 an instance of searching for something; "the
hunt for submarines"
7 the work of finding and killing or capturing
animals for food or pelts [syn: hunting]
8 the pursuit and killing or capture of wild
animals regarded as a sport [syn: hunting]
Verb
1 pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);
"Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running
deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: run, hunt down,
track
down]
2 pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters
traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the
suspect until they found the him" [syn: hound, trace]
3 chase away, with as with force; "They hunted
the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
4 yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the
plane's nose yawed"
5 oscillate about a desired speed, position, or
state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the
correct frequency"
6 seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading
glasses but was unable to locate them"
7 search (an area) for prey; "The King used to
hunt these forests"
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
Etymology
huntianPronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌnt
Verb
Translations
to chase down prey
- Albanian: gjuaj
- Bosnian: loviti
- Chinese: 打猎 (dǎliè), 猎取 (lièqǔ)
- Croatian: loviti
- Czech: lovit
- Danish: jage, gå på jagt efter
- Dutch: jagen (jaagde, gejaagd)
- Finnish: metsästää, jahdata
- French: chasser
- German: jagen
- Hebrew: לצוד
- Hindi: शिकार करना (šikār karnā)
- Hungarian: vadászik
- Italian: cacciare
- Japanese: 狩る
- Kurdish:
- Malayalam: േവട്ടയാടുക (vEttayaatuka)
- Persian: (šekār kardan), (said kardan)
- Polish: polować
- Portuguese: caçar
- Romanian: vâna
- Russian: охотиться (oχótit’s’a)
- Serbian:
- Spanish: cazar
- Swedish: jaga
- Telugu: వేటాడు (vETaaDu)
- Turkish: avlamak [-ar]
- Urdu: (šikār karnā), (said karnā)
- West Frisian: jeie
to search for something
- ttbc Estonian: jahtima, küttima
- ttbc Inuktitut: ᐊᖑᓇᓱᒃᑐᖅ
- ttbc Korean: 사냥하다 (sanyang-hada), 잡다 (jabda, japda)
Noun
- 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)
Translations
the act of hunting, shooting
- Albanian: gjueti
- Bosnian: lov
- Chinese: 狩猎 (shòuliè)
- Chinese characters: 狩, 猎 / 獵 / 猟
- Croatian: lov
- Czech: lov
- Danish: jagt
- Dutch: jacht
- Estonian: jaht
- Ewe: adedada
- Finnish: metsästys, jahti
- French: chasse
- German: Jagd
- Greek: κυνήγι
- Hebrew: מצוד , ציד
- Hindi: शिकार (šikār)
- Hungarian: vadászat
- Italian: caccia
- Japanese: 狩り, 狩猟
- Korean: 사냥 (sanyang)
- Kurdish:
- Malayalam: േവട്ട (vEtta)
- Persian: (šekār), (said)
- Polish: polowanie , myślistwo
- Portuguese (Brazil): caça
- Romanian: vânătoare
- Russian: охота
- Serbian:
- Spanish: caza
- Swedish: jakt
- Telugu: వేట (vETa)
- Turkish: av
- Urdu: (šikār) , (said)
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Basque: ehizatu
- ttbc Bengali: (shikAR kawrA)
- ttbc Bulgarian: лов
- ttbc Cebuano: pagpangayam
- ttbc Czech: pátrání - the act of trying to find someone
- ttbc Esperanto: casi
- ttbc Hawaiian: hahai, 'imi
- ttbc Ilongo: mangayam
- ttbc Indonesian: pencarian
Derived terms
Estonian
Noun
huntSynonyms
- susi
- untsantsakas
- hall hunt (grey wolf)
Old High German
Noun
huntExtensive Definition
Hunt may refer to:
Hunting
- Hunting, activity during which humans or animals chase prey
- Collective reference to a group of hunters practicing such a hunt, especially with dogs, e.g. Berkeley Hunt
- Recreational search for a specified target that may be
inanimate
- Scavenger hunt
- Treasure hunt
- Synonyms of hunt(ing) with a similar derived meaning, e.g. photo safari
- MIT Mystery Hunt at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Snipe hunt, practical joke
Surname
- Hunt (surname) (includes a list of people with this name)
Places in the United States
Other uses
- Hunt (computer game)
- Witch-hunt
- Hunt v. Cromartie, 1999 U.S. Supreme Court case
- Lucius Hunt, Australian progressive alternative rock band
- Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
- Hunt class destroyer, British escort ship
hunt in German: Hunt (Begriffsklärung)
hunt in French: Hunt
hunt in Polish: Hunt
hunt in Russian: Хант
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
angle for, ask for, beat, beat about for, beat the
bushes, beset, burrow, capture, cast about, chase, chase out, check out,
chevy, chivy, course, coursing, cynegetics, delve, delve for, dig, dig for, dog, domiciliary visit, dragnet, drive, drive out, drum out,
examine, exploration, explore, falcon, falconry, ferret, ferret out, fish for,
flush, follow, follow the hounds, follow
up, forage, force out,
fowl, fox hunting, freeze
out, frisk, give chase, go
after, go gunning for, go hunting, go through, gun, gun for, gunning, harass, harry, harry out, hawk, hawking, hollo after, hound, house-search, hunt down,
hunt for, hunt out, hunt up, hunting, investigate, jack, jacklight, kill, look, look around, look for, look
round, look through, look up, make after, molest, nose around, oppress, perquisition, persecute, poke, poke around, posse, probe, prosecute, prowl after,
pry, pry into, pursue, pursuit, push out, quest, quest after, raise the
hunt, ransack, ransacking, research, ride to hounds,
root, rout out, rummage, run, run after, run out, scour, search, search for, search party,
search through, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation,
searching, see to,
seek, seek for, seek out,
shikar, shoot, shooting, smell around, smoke
out, snare, sport, sporting, stalk, stalking, start, still hunt, still-hunt,
take out after, torment,
trace, track, track down, tracking down,
trail, try to find,
turning over, venery,
victimize