Definitions for pursuit

pursuit pur·suit

Spelling: [per-soot]
IPA: /pərˈsut/

Pursuit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in pursuit (iprstuu).

Definitions for pursuit

noun

  1. the act of pursuing:
  2. an effort to secure or attain; quest:
  3. any occupation, pastime, or the like, in which a person is engaged regularly or customarily:

Origin of pursuit

1300-50; Middle English Anglo-French purseute ≪ Vulgar Latin *prōsequita for Latin prōsecūta, feminine of prōsecūtus, past participle of prōsequī to pursue; cf.

Examples for pursuit

Yet, in pursuit of that ‘great revival of art,’ his anxiety, depression, and overall health began to deteriorate.

Gen. Marion had rallied a troop there, and checked the pursuit.

I shirked duty in pursuit of a good sleep, incurring her wrath this morning.

It is amusing to read Tarleton's pompous account of this pursuit.

They say The Guardian has been dragging its feet on the pursuit of NSA-related stories while keeping the Times on a short leash.

They had rode about 100 miles, in the pursuit and return, and all in 30 hours.

"I am satisfied with the pursuit of wisdom, not with the fame of it," replied the sage.

She arrived yesterday in pursuit of her husband, but perhaps you know this already from himself.

Making sense of her life on the page, deploying raw emotion alongside humor and wry mischief, has long been a Bechdel pursuit.

Better than anyone though, Murdoch saw and exploited the emotional needs satisfied by the pursuit of celebrity.

Word Value for pursuit
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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