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hunting

name · noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈhʌntɪŋ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʌntɪŋ
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AH1 N T IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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4

noun

Meaning 4

Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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5

noun

Meaning 5

The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications, telephony

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6

verb

Meaning 6

present participle and gerund of hunt

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

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7

noun

Meaning 7

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hunt

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: outdoor sport, field sport, blood sport

Narrower terms: battue, beagling, coursing, deer hunting, deer hunt, ducking, duck hunting, fox hunting, foxhunt, pigsticking

8

noun

Meaning 8

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hunt

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: labor, labour, toil

Narrower terms: canned hunt, stalk, stalking, still hunt, birdnesting, predation

9

noun

Meaning 9

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: search, hunt

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: activity

Narrower terms: exploration, foraging, forage, frisk, frisking, looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, seeking, ransacking, rummage, scouring, shakedown

History

Etymology

From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.

From Middle English huntynge, alteration of earlier Middle English huntinde, huntende, huntand, present participle of hunten (“to hunt”), equivalent to hunt + -ing.

Across languages

Translations

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: صَيْد (ṣayd) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Arabic: صيد (ṣēd) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Arabic: صيد (ṣēd) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Arabic: قَنص (ganṣ) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Armenian: որս (ors) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Avar: чанаве ине (čanawe ine) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Bashkir: һунар (hunar) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Bashkir: һунарсылыҡ (hunarsılıq) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Bulgarian: лов (lov) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Catalan: caça — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Chinese Mandarin: 狩獵 /狩猎 (shòuliè) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Czech: lov — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Esperanto: ĉasado — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Finnish: metsästys — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Finnish: pyynti — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • French: chasse — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • French: vènerie — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Galician: caza — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • German: Jagd — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • German: Aalen — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Greek: κυνήγι (kynígi) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Greek: θήρα (thíra) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Ancient Greek: κυνηγέσιον (kunēgésion) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Ancient Greek: θηρευτική (thēreutikḗ) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Ancient Greek: εὔθηρος (eúthēros) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Hebrew: ציד (tsáyid) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Hindi: आखेट (ākheṭ) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Irish: fiach — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Irish: sealgaireacht — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Irish: seilg — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Italian: caccia — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Japanese: 狩猟 — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Kazakh: аңшылық (añşylyq) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Latin: vēnātiō — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Macedonian: лов (lov) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Malayalam: വേട്ടയാടൽ (vēṭṭayāṭal) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Māori: whakangaunga — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Southern Sierra Miwok: halki — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Old English: huntoþ — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Old Turkic: 𐰉 — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Polish: polowanie — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Portuguese: caça — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Romanian: vânătoare — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Russian: охо́та (oxóta) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Campidanese Sardinian: càssa — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Sardinian: zera — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Sardinian: catza — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Sassarese: catza — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Spanish: caza — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Spanish: cacería — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Spanish: cinegética — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Spanish: montería — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Spanish: cazata — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Swahili: uwindo — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Swedish: jakt — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Tamil: வேட்டை (vēṭṭai) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Tocharian B: werke — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Turkish: avlama — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Ottoman Turkish: قنص (kans) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Ukrainian: полювання (poljuvannja) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • Urdu: شِکار (śikār) — chasing and killing animals for sport or to use its parts
  • French: chasse — looking for something
  • Greek: άγρα (ágra) — looking for something
  • Greek: αναζήτηση (anazítisi) — looking for something
  • Hebrew: מצוד (matsód) — looking for something
  • Hebrew: חיפוש (khipús) — looking for something
  • Irish: lorgaireacht — looking for something
  • Italian: caccia — looking for something
  • Māori: rapunga — looking for something
  • Māori: rapurapunga — looking for something
  • Māori: kimihanga — looking for something
  • Russian: по́иски (póiski) — looking for something
  • Spanish: caza — looking for something
  • Spanish: búsqueda — looking for something
  • Khiamniungan Naga: vēukūap — hunting birds
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