Definizione monolingua

hound

hound (third-person singular simple present hounds, present participle hounding, simple past and past participle hounded)

1. (transitive) To persistently harass.

   He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.

hound (plural hounds)

1. A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. (Hunt hound, Hunting hound, hunting dog, hunter)
2. (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
   • 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, ISBN 0151002045, page 93,

     On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If Id known who the signature hound thought I was, I wouldve signed appropriately.

   • 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sisters Keeper, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0743486196, page 483,

     I still do not know if hes taken on this case because hes a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.

3. (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of receptive females. In more recent times, hound has been replaced by dog but the sense remains the same.
   • 1915, Norman Duncan, ""A Certain Recipient"", in Harpers, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harpers Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,

     ""Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?"" […]

     ""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.""

Definizione dizionario hound

	bracco
	a dog

cane

braccare

cane da caccia

incitare

inseguire

perseguitare

segugio

Altri significati:

(by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of receptive females. In more recent times, hound has been replaced by dog but the sense remains the same.

A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals. (Hunt hound, Hunting hound, hunting dog, hunter)

(transitive) To persistently harass.

(by extension) Someone who seeks something.

to hound