hound
noun/haʊnd/
/haʊnd/
- a dog that can run fast and has a good sense of smell, used for hunting
- The hounds picked up a scent.
- In drag hunting, hounds chase an artificial scent.
- We could hear the hounds barking in the distance.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hunting
- pack
- bark
- bay
- pick up the scent
- …
- ride to hounds
Word OriginOld English hund (in the general sense ‘dog’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hond and German Hund, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek kuōn, kun- ‘dog’.Want to learn more?
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