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My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.
Louis Bacon

Meaning of "hunting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HUNTING

hunting  [ˈhʌntɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUNTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hunting 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 HUNTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hunting

Hunting

Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any living organism, or pursuing it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, lawful hunting is distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law. The species that are hunted are referred to as game and are usually mammals and birds. Hunting can also be a means of pest control. Hunting advocates state that hunting can be a necessary component of modern wildlife management, for example, to help maintain a population of healthy animals within an environment's ecological carrying capacity when natural checks such as predators are absent. In the United States, wildlife managers are frequently part of hunting regulatory and licensing bodies, where they help to set rules on the number, manner and conditions in which game may be hunted. The pursuit, capture and release, or capture for food of fish is called fishing, which is not commonly categorised as a form of hunting. Trapping is also usually considered a separate activity.

Definition of hunting in the English dictionary

The definition of hunting in the dictionary is the pursuit and killing or capture of game and wild animals, regarded as a sport.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HUNTING


accounting
əˈkaʊntɪŋ
antihunting
ˌæntɪˈhʌntɪŋ
bargain-hunting
ˈbɑːɡɪnˌhʌntɪŋ
boar-hunting
ˈbɔːˌhʌntɪŋ
bunting
ˈbʌntɪŋ
counting
ˈkaʊntɪŋ
disappointing
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋ
flat-hunting
ˈflætˌhʌntɪŋ
fortune-hunting
ˈfɔːtʃuːnˌhʌntɪŋ
house-hunting
ˈhaʊshʌntɪŋ
mounting
ˈmaʊntɪŋ
nonhunting
ˌnɒnˈhʌntɪŋ
painting
ˈpeɪntɪŋ
parenting
ˈpɛərəntɪŋ
pointing
ˈpɔɪntɪŋ
pothunting
ˈpɒtˌhʌntɪŋ
printing
ˈprɪntɪŋ
shunting
ˈʃʌntɪŋ
wanting
ˈwɒntɪŋ
witch-hunting
ˈwɪtʃˌhʌntɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUNTING

hunted
huntedly
hunter
hunter-gatherer
hunter-killer
hunter-killer submarine
hunter´s moon
huntiegowk
hunting case
hunting cat
hunting ground
hunting horn
hunting knife
hunting lodge
hunting pink
hunting pinks
hunting rifle
hunting season
hunting spider
hunting watch

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUNTING

acting
banting
business accounting
business-accounting
chanting
consenting
daunting
dissenting
enchanting
face painting
financial accounting
haunting
merchanting
not counting
offset printing
oil painting
panting
ranting
screen printing
unrelenting
venting

Synonyms and antonyms of hunting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HUNTING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hunting» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hunting

Translation of «hunting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HUNTING

Find out the translation of hunting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hunting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hunting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

打猎
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cacería
570 millions of speakers

English

hunting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शिकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صَيْدٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

охота
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caça
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিকার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chasse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memburu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jagd
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

狩り
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사냥
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mburu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự đi săn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேட்டையாடுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शिकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

avcılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

caccia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polowanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

полювання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vânătoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυνήγι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

jag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

jakt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

jakt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hunting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUNTING»

The term «hunting» is very widely used and occupies the 2.082 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUNTING» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «HUNTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hunting.
1
Casey Affleck
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
2
Louis Bacon
My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.
3
Rosecrans Baldwin
About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.
4
Amy J. Berg
As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year.
5
Bjork
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
6
Elayne Boosler
You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
7
Pat Burns
Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
8
James Fenimore Cooper
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.
9
Walter Cronkite
The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
10
Stephanie Cutter
My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUNTING»

Discover the use of hunting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hunting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Daddy's Gone A Hunting
In her latest novel, Daddy’s Gone A Hunting, Mary Higgins Clark, the beloved “Queen of Suspense,” exposes a dark secret from a family’s past that threatens the lives of sisters Kate and Hannah Connelly when the family-owned ...
Mary Higgins Clark, 2013
2
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
By turns brutal, tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of “the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a ...
Joe Bageant, 2008
3
Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A ...
Illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England.
David D. Hall, 2005
4
The Everything Ghost Hunting Book: Tips, tools, and ...
Readers explore motion sensors, highly sensitive digital cameras, and so-called Ghost Telephones, as well as the supernatural phenomena themselves, including: Poltergeists Electronic-voice phenomena (EVP) Possession Photo anomalies Séances ...
Melissa Martin Ellis, 2009
5
Hunting, Fishing and Camping
In 1942, L.L. Bean, founder of the giant catalog company, wrote and published this guide. The author gives practical advice on hunting, fishing, and camping based on his many years as a celebrated outdoorsman.
Leon Leonwood Bean, 1993
6
Advanced Whitetail Hunting
The main difference between this book and others, is that Advanced Whitetail Hunting contains secrets from some of North America's most successful trophy buck hunters.
Ron Spomer, Gary Clancy, 1996
7
The Delights and Dilemmas of Hunting: The Hunting Versus ...
This book presents arguments from both groups and will help to broaden the perspective of each side. This book will be useful to students and scholars of environmental ethics.
Forrest Wood, 1997
8
The Complete Book of Wild Boar Hunting: Tips and Tactics ...
In this complete guide, veteran boar hunter Todd Triplett details everything you need to know to take these tasty game animals, including: Distribution and history Scouting for prime habitat, bedding areas, and food sources Interpreting ...
Todd Triplett, 2004
9
Meditations on Hunting
This is the classic treatise on hunting, written by Spain's leading philosopher of the 20th century. Reprinted with permission from Scribner, this edition features handsome new illustrations.
Jose Ortega y Gasset, 2007
10
Deer and Deer Hunting: The Serious Hunter's Guide
Offers profiles of famous deer hunters, discusses deer habits and behavior, and looks at bow hunting, deer camps, and hunting ethics
Robert Wegner, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUNTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hunting is used in the context of the following news items.
1
North Dakota holding limited pronghorn hunting season again …
FILE - In this undated file photo, pronghorn antelope run through a field near Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota will have a limited pronghorn hunting ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
2
Sunday hunting law is good first step | StarNewsOnline.com
While North Carolina's newest hunting law, the Outdoor Heritage Act, increases opportunities for Sunday hunting on private land, taking wood ... «StarNewsOnline.com, Jul 15»
3
DNR offers bear-hunting classes in Northern Michigan | MLive.com
The class features instructors with over 100 years of combined hunting experience, as well as input from veteran hunters who are taking the ... «MLive.com, Jul 15»
4
PA man sentenced for illegal hunting in Fergus County - KRTV.com …
In this case Vaul was charged not just with residency and the hunting with those unlawful licenses, but also with possessions on animals that he had no licenses ... «KRTV Great Falls News, Jul 15»
5
Winners Drawn for Vermont Moose Hunting Permits …
BARRE, Vt.- A lottery drawing in Barre Thursday determined the winners of Vermont's 2015 moose hunting permits. A computer-generated ... «My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22, Jul 15»
6
Seven Mistakes To Avoid When Job Hunting - Forbes
When I start working with new clients, most of them approach job-hunting with a similar attitude: Dread. Exhaustion. Intimidation. All of these ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
7
Applications available for antlerless deer hunting licenses : News …
Applications for antlerless deer hunting licenses are now available and will be through August 15, according to the Department of Natural ... «UpNorthLive.com, Jul 15»
8
Elk Hunting Tips: How to Pinpoint the Best Bull Habitat | Outdoor Life
The immensity of the terrain can be overwhelming, especially to hunters who are used to hunting a few dozen acres. Start by studying a topo map of the area you ... «Outdoor Life Magazine, Jul 15»
9
Governor leads fight to pass limited Sunday hunting - Central …
Just when I thought it would never have a prayer, HB 6034, an act to allow Sunday hunting passed by the state legislature and on July 2 was ... «Newbritainherald, Jul 15»
10
Several Sunday Hunting Bills Pending in the Massachusetts State …
Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- Four bills regarding Sunday hunting have been introduced in the 189th General Court in Massachusetts. «AmmoLand Shooting Sports News, Jul 15»

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