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English

Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *hunt?n? (“to hunt, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *kend- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic ???????????????????? (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English h?þ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

   • Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall

     Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

   • 2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound ?ISBN, page 10:

2. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

   The police are hunting for evidence.

3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

   to hunt down a criminal

   He was hunted from the parish.

4. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

   • He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.

5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

   He hunts the woods, or the country.

6. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
7. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
8. (engineering, intransitive) 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, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Derived terms

• hunt where the ducks are
• that dog won't hunt

Translations

Noun

hunt (plural hunts)

1. The act of hunting.
2. A hunting expedition.
3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
4. A pack of hunting dogs.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Thun

Bavarian

Noun

hunt ?

1. (Sappada, Sauris, Timau) dog

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Cimbrian

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Etymology

Most likely from Middle Low German hunt.Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-Germanic *hundaz.

Noun

hunt (genitive hundi, partitive hunti)

1. wolf, grey wolf

Declension

Synonyms

• susi
• untsantsakas
• hall hunt

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz (“dog”). Cognate with German Hund, English hound.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

References

• “hunt” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hont
  • Dutch: hond

Further reading

• “hunt (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: hunt
  • Alemannic German: Hund

    Alsatian: Hund

    Swabian: Hond

    Walser: hun, hund, hunn, hònn

  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: hunt

    Mòcheno: hunt

    Udinese: hunt

  • Central Franconian: Hond, Honk, Honk

    Hunsrik: Hund

    Kölsch: Hunk, Hungk

  • German: Hund
    • ? Esperanto: hundo
      • Ido: hundo
  • Luxembourgish: Hond
  • Vilamovian: hund
  • Yiddish: ????? (hunt)

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt???/, /æd?v?nt???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt???/
• Hyphenation: ad?ven?ture

Etymology 1

From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).

Noun

adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)

1. The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
2. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

3. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
4. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

5. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
6. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
7. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
8. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
   • 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart

     He was in great adventure of his life.

Synonyms

• (that which happens by chance): fortune, hazard, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (chance of danger or loss): hazard
• (risk): jeopardy; see also Thesaurus:danger

Antonyms

• abstention, peradventure, unadventurous

Derived terms

• at all adventures

Related terms

• advent
• advene

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.

Verb

adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)

1. (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
2. (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
   • c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:

     Discriminations might be adventured.

3. (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• adventure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• aventured, unaverted

Latin

Participle

advent?re

1. vocative masculine singular of advent?rus

Middle French

Alternative forms

• aventure

Etymology

From Old French avanture, with the addition of a d to reflect Latin advent?rum.

Noun

adventure f (plural adventures)

1. adventure
2. fortune