English
Noun
hunting ground (plural hunting grounds)
- An area used for hunting.
- (figurative) A place where people can find what they are looking for.
1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tell a Green Man Something”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 209:Yes, it was my hunting ground, and it was solid happy. Course, my home wasn't exactly in Harlem […]
- (figurative) Synonym of stamping ground (“a place habitually frequented”).
2023, Jeff Jones, Stars and Scars: The Story of Jewish Boxing in London:In January 1901 he fought Jerry Driscoll back on his old hunting ground of Gateshead in the North East.
Derived terms
Translations
area for hunting
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- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 圍場 / 围场 (zh) (wéichǎng)
- Czech: loviště (cs) n
- Danish: jagtmark c, jagtområde n
- Dutch: jachtgebied (nl) n, jachtveld (nl) n
- Esperanto: ĉasejo
- Finnish: metsästysmaa (fi), metsästysalue
- French: terrain de chasse m
- German: Jagdgrund (de) m, Jagdgebiet (de) n, Jagdrevier (de) n, Jagdbezirk m
- Hungarian: vadászmező (hu)
- Icelandic: veiðilendur f pl
- Italian: terreno di caccia m
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- Macedonian: ло́виште n (lóvište)
- Persian: بشگرد (fa) (bešgard)
- Polish: łowisko n
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- Russian: охо́тничье уго́дье n (oxótničʹje ugódʹje)
- Spanish: coto de caza m, cazadero (es) m
- Swedish: jaktmark (sv) c
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place to find what one is looking for