hunts

SayHUNTS/hʌnts/

2 meanings of hunts

1
verb
Third-person singular simple present of hunt.
The pride hunts together at dusk to bring down larger prey.
A skilled detective hunts for the smallest inconsistencies in a story.
Note
The present-tense verb works with or without an object: a pride hunts, a huntsman hunts the hounds, a ringer hunts a bell through its changes. For searching rather than killing, it usually takes for (she hunts for her keys). With down, away or from, it means to drive or chase, as when a pack hunts down its quarry.
2
noun
Plural of hunt.
The county's annual fox hunts draw riders from across the region.
Police searches and missing-person hunts dominated the evening news.
Note
A regular plural that covers more than one kind of thing. The noun can name the chase itself, the expedition, the organized club that rides out, or the pack of hounds it works with. So a county's hunts may be its outings or its member societies, and only context decides which. The same spelling serves the present-tense verb. A determiner such as the, several or annual marks the noun.

hunts is a form of hunt

hunt, verb: To search for and pursue wild animals in order to kill them for food or sport, or to search an area of land for such animals. Full entry

Forms: hunthunts he/she/ithunting -ing formhunted past tense, past participle
Spelling: hunt → hunts: add -s
Sound: The ending sounds like /s/.

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