hunting ground
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3.9
- noun
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zona de caza
- But people are hunting and invading their hunting grounds, so they are forced to go into populated areas.
- lands and hunting grounds
Examples
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The Russians could not go outside the stockade to hunt because they were not allowed to: those hunting grounds belonged to Tlingit clans, who were very protective of their property.
Academic text (2009) -
South Texas is prime hunting ground for whitetails during the fall season.
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This is their main hunting ground.
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I need to get new hunting grounds anyway.
Blog text (5) -
Someone built a house there, and no sooner had it been built than an Indian claimed it was on his hunting ground.
Fiction book (1996) -
Northern Utes were driven out of their Colorado hunting grounds by state deer police.
Academic text (1995) -
Searching for open space and new hunting grounds, they followed the receding glaciers.
Academic text (2007) -
Some 460 kilometers northeast of China's capital, this meadow was a favorite hunting ground for the imperial family of the Qing dynasty.
Blog text (6) -
There are nearly twenty contemporary Haudenosaunee communities in our historic homelands and hunting grounds (New York State, Quebec, and Ontario) and in the relocated regions of Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
Academic text (2009) -
The national park is known for its vast hunting grounds that attract both tourists and locals.
Synonyms
An area of land where people hunt animals at certain times of the year
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'hunting' (searching) + 'ground' (an area) yields a place where searching occurs, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer 'a place to look for opportunities'. The metaphorical extension from literal hunting to searching for opportunities is common and cross-linguistically accessible, making the expression immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
Hunting ground names a place where people go to find and kill wild animals. Imagine hunters returning to the same patch of woods because they know the game is there; that picture explains why it means 'an area where wild animals are hunted' today.