deer hunt
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3.1
- noun
- /dɪr hʌnt/
:
cacería de ciervos
- I mean, my God, that deer hunt...
- the annual deer hunt
- the first deer hunt
- an early-season deer hunt
Examples
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This means the only deer hunters afield with you are those with the same tag that you have. There will not be hordes of whitetail hunters competing for space during your mule deer hunt and vice versa.
Blog text (8) -
On the evening of September 3, 1953, while he was out on a deer hunt, a gamekeeper by the name of Mechling discovered the naked corpse of a woman on a highway embankment.
Fiction book (2002) -
I went on a deer hunt once with my brother, Alan, and a couple of his friends.
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Dugan offered to help Hall with a deer hunt, and was surprised when Hall called about three weeks ago.
Blog text (4) -
DNR: Gun deer hunt opener a success
Blog text (10) -
We created a series of seven-day deer hunts without overlapping season dates.
Blog text (8) -
He would be talking in the Diva with the elders, dreaming of his first deer hunt, learning the sacred dances of warriors.
Fiction book (1995) -
The deer hunt was an annual ritual: the chairman of the board had hung twenty-plus bucks in his forty-six years: real men didn't kill does.
Fiction book (1999) -
I mainly intended to use the gun for a couple of whitetail deer hunts at medium to close range and for occasional target shooting, so I didn't want to spend a bunch of money, but wanted a serviceable rifle that shot tight groups and was reliable and safe.
Blog text (25) -
Last fall, I enjoyed a memorable deer hunt with my friends in the woods.
Synonyms
360
1.0
Chasing and killing wild animals for food, fur, or sport
150
1.4
The activity of chasing and killing wild animals for food or sport
7
3.0
To look for and kill deer for food, sport, or to control their numbers
1
4.2
A trip to go far to kill wild animals for sport or food in remote places
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9.8
To move quietly and try to catch an animal by surprise
The activity of quietly following deer to hunt them in the wild
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an act or period of hunting deer' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'deer' (the animal) with 'hunt' (the act of pursuing animals). This simple noun + noun construction is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent English compounding/nominal modification patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Deer hunt is a compound noun that comes from the simple, literal picture of people going into the woods to chase deer as part of a hunt to get meat or for sport. So, when someone says 'deer hunt' today, they mean 'an event or time when people hunt deer'.