hunt

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Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

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Definition

  1. noun Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
  2. noun United States architect (1827-1895)
  3. noun British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint. In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.

In classic literature

Synonyms

Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt

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