Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Hunt
User Submitted Origins
English
50%
Scottish
28%
French
11%
Islamic/Muslim
6%
American
6%
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Pennsylvania, U.S. says the name Hunt means "Personallity".
International Interest
Also see international interest
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
verb Hunt
Senses
- To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer."Like a dog, he hunts in dreams." [Tennyson.]
- To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence. "Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him." [Ps. cxl. 11.]
- To drive; to chase; -- with down from away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
- To use or manage in the chase, as hounds."He hunts a pack of dogs." [Addison.]
- To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
- [Change Ringing] To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
Etymology: AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin�anin comp.) to seize. √36. Cf. Hent
verb Hunt
Senses
- To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds."Esau went to the field to hunt for venison." [Gen. xxvii. 5.]
- To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after."He after honor hunts, I after love." [Shak.]
- [Mach] 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, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- [Change Ringing] To shift up and down in order regularly.
noun Hunt
Senses
- The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search."The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray." [Shak.]
- The game secured in the hunt.(Obs)
- A pack of hounds.(Obs)
- An association of huntsmen.
- A district of country hunted over."Every landowner within the hunt." [London Field.]
Other Dictionary Sources
- The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- An instance of searching for something ("the hunt for submarines")
- An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
- United States architect (1827-1895)
- Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
- Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) ("Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland" and "The Duke hunted in these woods")
- Search (an area) for prey ("The King used to hunt these forests")
- Seek, search for ("She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them")
- Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent ("The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency")
- Pursue or chase relentlessly ("The hunters traced the deer into the woods")
- Yaw back and forth about a flight path
- Chase away, with as with force ("They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood")
Wiktionary
- An English occupational surname for a hunter (for game, birds etc).
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
Hunt was also found in the following language(s): German and Plautdietsch