HUNTING GROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hunting ground mean? 

• HUNTING GROUND (noun)
  The noun HUNTING GROUND has 2 senses:

1. a place where opportunities abound

2. an area in which game is hunted

  Familiarity information: HUNTING GROUND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNTING GROUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place where opportunities abound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hunting ground" is a kind of...):

chance; opportunity (a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An area in which game is hunted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("hunting ground" is a kind of...):

area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))

 Context examples 

There is no reason why he should; his hunting ground is more full of game than the churchyard where the Un-Dead woman sleep, and the one old man watch.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)