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hound
CEFRC1
/haʊnd/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A dog bred for hunting by following a scent.
- 02
noun
Extra detailAny canine animal.
Examples
Spring over the ground like a hunting hound.
The hound was in full chase of the bear.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsSomeone who seeks something.
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
A despicable person.
More examples
In contextHe hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
"She had a good many successors, John." "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Doublet of canine. Cognate with Dutch hond (“dog”), German Hund (“dog”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hund (“dog”), Faroese and Icelandic hundur (“dog”). In 14th-century England, hound was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog (much as the distinction between Hund and Dogge in contemporary German). By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.