Meaning & Definition of Hunt in English
Hunt
noun
1. Englishman and pre-raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
- Hunt,
- Holman Hunt,
- William Holman Hunt
2. United states architect (1827-1895)
- Hunt,
- Richard Morris Hunt
3. British writer who defended the romanticism of keats and shelley (1784-1859)
- Hunt,
- Leigh Hunt,
- James Henry Leigh Hunt
4. An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- hunt,
- hunt club
5. An instance of searching for something
- "The hunt for submarines"
- hunt
6. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- search,
- hunt,
- hunting
7. The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- hunt,
- hunting
8. The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- hunt,
- 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"
- hunt,
- 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 him"
- hound,
- hunt,
- trace
3. Chase away, with as with force
- "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
- hunt
4. Yaw back and forth about a flight path
- "The plane's nose yawed"
- hunt
5. Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
- "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
- hunt
6. Seek, search for
- "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
- hunt
7. Search (an area) for prey
- "The king used to hunt these forests"
- hunt