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/haʊnd/ · noun
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals..
On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.
"She had a good many successors, John." "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."
Boy! false hound!
I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound.
'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.
He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.
More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. Instead of having been hounded to death for his homosexuality, the scientist Alan Turing is thriving and lauded.
Use hound when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hound means A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals..
Common synonyms include cur, badger, bait, bedevil.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.
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