Other forms: hounds, hounded, hounding
A hound is a dog bred for hunting by scent. A pack of hounds, foxhounds, the hounds gave tongue.
Scent hounds work with their noses down and sight hounds by seeing, which is the split within the group. As a verb, to hound somebody is to pursue them relentlessly, usually said of the press. Note that hound was the ordinary English word for a dog until dog displaced it.
1nounhoundA dog bred for hunting by scent.
“The hounds barked loudly as they raced across the fields after the fox.”
2verbpursueTo pursue somebody relentlessly.
“Photographers hounded the young actor wherever she went.”
hound is a dog.
Old English hund means a dog, from a Proto-Indo-European root. Latin canis and Greek kyon come from the same root.
Middle English
hound
English, today
hound
From Middle English hound. a doublet of canine. Cognate with Dutch hond (“dog”), German Hund (“dog”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish hund (“dog”), Faroese and Icelandic hundur (“dog”). In 14th-century England, hound was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog (much as the distinction between Hund and Dogge in contemporary German). By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.[https://books.google.com/?id=u
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