gundog

noun

Definition of gundognext
as in hunter

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Recent Examples of gundog Terriers, gundogs, and scent hounds have the least wolf ancestry, on average, the museum said. — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 26 Nov. 2025 Willie Forde, the manager of Adare Country Pursuits, showed off an award-worthy gundog demonstration with his adorable Irish labradors, Midnight and Shadow. — Vanessa Wilkins, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023 Handlers fluent in those five behaviors can produce a world-class gundog on their own. — Tom Keer, Outdoor Life, 11 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gundog
  1. hunter
  2. sheepdog
  3. wolfhound
  4. puppy
  5. pup
  6. coonhound
  7. watchdog
Noun
  • Among his trophies are an Alaskan moose and caribou, wild boars, bears, whitetail deer, Catalina goats and more mule deer bucks than some hunters see in a lifetime.
    — Rich LaRocco, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Rattlesnakes are lazy hunters that wait in the shadows for prey to approach.
    — RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of hunter
Noun
  • The news was accompanied by a rare photo from 1968, taken during the famous Mad Day Out photoshoot, also featuring Martha, Paul McCartney’s sheepdog.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The show follows the titular Shaun, who lives on a quiet British farm with his flock and is constantly trying to add excitement to their quaint lifestyles, often causing trouble for their farmer and the sheepdog Bitzer.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
Definition of sheepdog
Noun
  • The wolfhound, whose name was Aggie, had tremendous grace and several contusions.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In the book on which the show is based, Winn-Dixie is an Irish wolfhound, so Berloni duly adopted and trained two wolfhounds.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 3 July 2019
Definition of wolfhound
Noun
  • Only the prolonged application of his best puppy-dog eyes and an earnest threat of self-harm softens up the old girl, but with caveats.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
  • James Bowshier and his wife walked into their local animal shelter to look at a puppy but another dog caught their attention.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of puppy
Noun
  • That extra piece of siding near the entrance helps prevent wind and rain from entering the dog house, keeping your pup dry and warm in the winter.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Salsa was rescued once as a pup during an Unprecedented Mortality Event, released in 2015, re-stranded due to a fishing entanglement and deemed non-releasable by the federal government.
    — Valerie Greene, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of pup
Noun
  • Jango, a six-and-a-half-year-old mix of bluetick coonhound, treeing walker coonhound, cattle dog, and Shetland sheepdog, was adopted from a shelter in southern Indiana just before the pandemic hit.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Firefighters, public works employees, and community members banded together to save Dylan, an 8-year-old coonhound, and get him medical help.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
Definition of coonhound
Noun
  • The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with artificial intelligence capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report published in October.
    — Chiara Eisner, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Davis’s letter follows a separate ethics complaint filed by a conservative watchdog group to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over Slotkin’s University of Chicago remarks, first reported by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of watchdog

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