noun
Meaning 1
The act of going stealthily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
stalking
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Pronunciation
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/ˈstɔːkɪŋ/
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rhymes with -ɔːkɪŋ
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homophone: stocking (cot–caught merger)
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CMU ARPABET: S T AO1 K IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Hunting for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The crime of following or harassing another person, causing that person to fear death or injury.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
The removal of stalks from bunches of grapes prior to winemaking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 5
present participle and gerund of stalk
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 6
the act of following prey stealthily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stalk
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pursuit, chase, pursual, following
noun
Meaning 7
a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stalk, still hunt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hunt, hunting
Narrower terms: deerstalking
History
Etymology
From Middle English stalkynge, stalkyng, from Old English stealcung, from Proto-West Germanic *stalkungu, equivalent to stalk + -ing.
Etymology tree English stalk Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English stalking From stalk (“the stem of a plant”) + -ing.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: stalking — crime of following or harassing
- Finnish: vainoaminen — crime of following or harassing
- Finnish: piinaaminen — crime of following or harassing
- German: Stalking — crime of following or harassing
- German: Nachstellung — crime of following or harassing
- Japanese: ストーキング (sutōkingu) — crime of following or harassing
- Korean: 스토킹 (seutoking) — crime of following or harassing
- Norwegian Bokmål: personforfølgelse — crime of following or harassing
- Norwegian Bokmål: stalking — crime of following or harassing
- Norwegian Nynorsk: personforfølging — crime of following or harassing
- Norwegian Nynorsk: stalking — crime of following or harassing
- Polish: stalking — crime of following or harassing
- Polish: nękanie — crime of following or harassing
- Russian: ста́лкинг (stálking) — crime of following or harassing
- Russian: ста́лкерство (stálkerstvo) — crime of following or harassing
- Tagalog: panunubaybay — crime of following or harassing
- Urdu: غیر مجاز تعاقب — crime of following or harassing
- French: égrappage — removal of stalks
- French: éraflage — removal of stalks
- Polish: odszypułkowywanie — removal of stalks
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