Meaning

noun Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

noun United States architect (1827-1895)

noun British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

originFrom Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint. In some areas read as a…

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