Definitions for hunting

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hunting hunt·ing

Spelling: [huhn-ting]

IPA: /ˈhʌn tɪŋ/

Hunting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in hunting (ghinntu).

Definitions for hunting

noun

1. the act of a person, animal, or thing that hunts.
2. Electricity. the periodic oscillating of a rotating electromechanical system about a mean space position, as in a synchronous motor.
3. an act or practice of hunting game or other wild animals.
4. a search; a seeking or endeavor to find.
5. a pursuit.
6. a group of persons associated for the purpose of hunting; an association of hunters.
7. an area hunted over.
8. Change Ringing. a regularly varying order of permutations in the ringing of a group of from five to twelve bells.

adjective

1. of, for, engaged in, or used while hunting:

verb (used with object)

1. to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
2. to pursue with force, hostility, etc., in order to capture (often followed by down):
3. to search for; seek; endeavor to obtain or find (often followed by up or out):
4. to search (a place) thoroughly.
5. to scour (an area) in pursuit of game.
6. to use or direct (a horse, hound, etc.) in chasing game.
7. Change Ringing. to alter the place of (a bell) in a hunt.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in the pursuit, capture, or killing of wild animals for food or in sport.
2. to make a search or quest (often followed by for or after).
3. Change Ringing. to alter the place of a bell in its set according to certain rules.

Origin of hunting

before 950; Middle English huntung (noun), Old English huntung(e). See hunt, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for hunting

Viscount Mandeville, like many British aristocrats, had met her in the U.S. while “hunting” for an American wife.

Does wildlife campaigner Prince Charles's hunting habit make him a hypocrite?

With delisting, relaxed regulations, and hunting quotas, you might add in another one or two hundred dead grizzlies.

"'Twould be like hunting for a pin in a haystack," said the Rev. Hilary Jones.

She was fond of hunting, and could shoot at a mark with wonderful skill.

In fact, Simba was at the moment sharpening his hunting knife in preparation.

I will move into the White House, but keep an apartment in New York, a house in Beverly Hills and a hunting box in Central Park.

There were also Shamans of hunting, of medicine and priestcraft.

No, sir, the person he was hunting for was a man with a hundred camels.

Other human practices, like the hunting and consumption of wild animals for food, provide other opportunities for spillover.