pursuit

pur·suit

noun \pər-ˈsüt, -ˈsyüt\

Definition of PURSUIT

1

: the act of pursuing

2

: an activity that one engages in as a vocation, profession, or avocation : occupation

Examples of PURSUIT

1. The hounds were running in the woods in pursuit of a fox.
2. She enjoys reading, knitting, and other quiet pursuits.

Origin of PURSUIT

Middle English, from Anglo-French pursute, from pursure

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to PURSUIT

Synonyms

chase, chasing, dogging, following, hounding, pursuing, shadowing, tagging, tailing, tracing, tracking, trailing

Related Words

hot pursuit; tagging along; path, track, trail; search, seeking

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Rhymes with PURSUIT

acute, astute, Asyût, bear fruit, beetroot, Beirut, birthroot, bloodroot, breadfruit, butut, cahoot, Canute, catsuit, cheroot, choucroute, clubroot, commute, compute, confute, crapshoot, cube root, deaf-mute, depute, dilute, dispute, dry suit, elute, en route, enroot, flight suit, folkmoot, freeboot, galoot, grapefruit, G suit, hardboot, hip boot, hirsute, imbrute, impute, jackboot, jackfruit, jumpsuit, kashruth, lawsuit, long suit, lounge suit, minute, nonsuit, offshoot, outshoot, Paiute, pantsuit, permute, playsuit, pollute, recruit, refute, repute, salute, sans doute, seaboot, snowsuit, solute, square root, star fruit, star route, statute, strong suit, sunsuit, sweat suit, swimsuit, take root, taproot, to boot, tracksuit, trade route, transmute, tribute, uproot, volute, wet suit, zoot suit