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PRONUNCIATION OF HARE AND HOUNDS

hare and hounds play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARE AND HOUNDS

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conjunction
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Hare and hounds is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HARE AND HOUNDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hare and hounds in the English dictionary

The definition of hare and hounds in the dictionary is a game in which certain players run across country scattering pieces of paper that the other players follow in an attempt to catch the hares.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARE AND HOUNDS

hardwire
hardwood
hardy
hardy annual
hardy perennial
hare
Hare Krishna
hare wallaby
hare´s-foot
hare´s-foot clover
harebell
harebrained
hareem
hareld
harelike
harelip
harelipped
harem
harestail
harewood

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARE AND HOUNDS

beat the bounds
bounds
by leaps and bounds
Cahokia Mounds
coffee grounds
feeding grounds
funds
go the rounds
grounds
hounds
lick one´s wounds
master of foxhounds
master of hounds
out of bounds
ride to hounds
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
showgrounds
sounds
surrounds
the hounds
zounds

Synonyms and antonyms of hare and hounds in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hare and hounds» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARE AND HOUNDS

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Translator English - Chinese

野兔和猎犬
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Hare and Hounds
570 millions of speakers

English

hare and hounds
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खरगोश और hounds
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأرنب و كلاب الصيد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заяц и собаки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Hare and Hounds
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খরগোশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Hare and Hounds
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelinci dan anjing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hare and Hounds
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウサギと猟犬
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

토끼 와 사냥개
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wara-wara lan hounds
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

thỏ và chó săn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஹரே மற்றும் ஹவுண்ட்ஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ससा आणि शिकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tavşanlar ve köpekler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Hare and Hounds
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Zając i psy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заєць і собаки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iepure și câinii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λαγός και κυνηγόσκυλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Hare en honde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hare och hundar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hare og hounds
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hare and hounds

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARE AND HOUNDS»

The term «hare and hounds» is regularly used and occupies the 77.800 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARE AND HOUNDS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hare and hounds

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARE AND HOUNDS»

Discover the use of hare and hounds in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hare and hounds and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Advanced PE for OCR A2
Instead it was adapted to 'hare and hounds' where the human 'hare' would run ahead and drop 'scent' (paper) for the 'hounds' (other schoolboys) to follow. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes (1896) stresses that: £ long runs, ...
‎2004
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Essays on Preferences and Decision Making
4.2.4 Rules of the Hare and Hounds Game This is the description of the rules taken from www.mazeworks.com: "On each turn, a single hound moves to a directly connected empty square or octagon, followed by the hare's similar move.
Alexander Vostroknutov, 2008
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Boys' Life
"Hare and Hounds," however, is interesting, and even exciting, from start to finish. This means that you get a lot of healthy exercise without knowing it. It makes you use your wits, either as a hare laying the trail, or as a hound following it. It gives ...
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The Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20 ...: With a List of ...
Salford Half Moon, John Hudson, Deansgate Half Modn, H. Broadhurst, 68, Deansgate Half Moon, Wm. Acton, Chapel-walks Hare and Hounds, Jos. Lees, Red-bank Hare and Hounds, Wm. Belk, Withy-grove Hare and Hounds, John Blease, ...
J. Pigot & Co, 1818
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Running Through the Ages
Hughes attended, acting as judge, and the event's success led to the formation of the Thames Hare and Hounds Club. By 1889, London had 30 more such clubs. The first English Cross Country Championships were held in Epping Forest in ...
Edward Seldon Sears, 2008
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Evening Standard London Pub Bar Guide 1999 S S Int
216 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14; 0181 876 4304 The Hare and Hounds is a fine Georgian house of red brick on the Upper Richmond Road in East Sheen. Some punters were not best pleased when the faded, rather dingy charm of ...
Edward Sullivan, 2000
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Sports and Freedom
glish game of hare and hounds in 1870, but it seems to have died almost as soon as it was introduced.11 Harvard experimented with the sport of hare and hounds in 1876, just one week before the inaugural Thanksgiving Day championship ...
Ronald A. Smith
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Running in Literature: A Guide for Scholars, Readers, ...
The club's history, The Annals of Thames Hare and Hounds (1968), affirms that “ Walter Rye always said that the idea of Paperchasing came to him from . . . Tom Brown's Schooldays,” and Rye's Badminton Library history does the same: Next ...
Roger Robinson, 2003
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The Chambers Dictionary
hare-and-hounds a paper-chase; hare bell a slender-stemmed plant with a hanging blue bell-shaped flower, the Scottish bluebell (Campanula roiundifolia). — adj hare-brained, sometimes hair -brained giddy, silly, stupid: heedless; headlong.
Allied Chambers, 1998
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Children's Folklore: A Handbook
to chasing games, such as French Touch and Daddy Whacker; catching games, such as Prisoner's Base; seeking games, such as Hide-and-Seek; hunting games , such as Hare and Hounds; racing games, such as Letters and Colours; and ...
Elizabeth Tucker, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARE AND HOUNDS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hare and hounds is used in the context of the following news items.
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Update: A429 blocked both ways near Hare and Hounds Pub after …
THE A429 is blocked in both directions due to an accident at Fosscross Lane, near the Hare and Hounds Pub. Police were called at 6.20am ... «Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, Jul 15»
2
The Hare and Hounds, Pickwick Road, Corsham
THE Hare and Hounds in Corsham is well known as the inspiration behind the Charles Dickens classic The Pickwick Papers. Whilst on ... «Swindon Advertiser, Jul 15»
3
A first look at Digbeth's The Night Owl - the new home of Northern Soul
Friend Matt Vause, 32, is regular at Brum's once nomadic Northern Soul scene at nights such as Soulvation's at the Hare and Hounds in Kings ... «Birmingham Mail, Jul 15»
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A glimpse of lost freedom
And actually, even I frowned in The Railway Children when the grammar school boys have a hare and hounds race. (a) because it's daft to run into a railway ... «The Northern Echo, Jul 15»
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Brakspear pubs are a dog's best friend
Butchers Arms, Sonning Common , Clifton Arms, Caversham , Duke of Wellington, Twyford, Hare and Hounds, Sonning Common, Green Man, ... «getreading, Jul 15»
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Pedestrian killed by tractor trailer
The popular man from Birch had been out walking to get his Sunday paper from The Hare and Hounds pub when he was hit at the junction of Birch Street and ... «Clacton and Frinton Gazette, Jul 15»
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Ought Announce Second Album
... Manchester's Deaf Institute (September 2) and Birmingham's Hare and Hounds (September 3). You can see a full list of upcoming dates here ... «The Quietus, Jul 15»
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John J Presley, Table Scraps, Crawlin' Hands, Hare and Hounds
It's been over two years since John J Presley and his band played their hometown of Birmingham. Tonight they're back at long last, after ... «Counteract Magazine, Jul 15»
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Briggsy's pub review: Hare and Hounds, Burnley
It's fair to say the Hare and Hounds has had a fluctuation of fortunes of late. Having closed, reopened and closed again in the last few months. It was feared ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Jul 15»
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Five-a-Side Footy: Shocks aplenty as Cup gets underway
Praises were sung for 'Stewart the Jock' in goal for Hare and Hounds FC, as he made a number of saves to earn his side a share of the spoils. «Liverpool Echo, Jul 15»

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