Word.ws English Dictionary

bloodhounds

bloodhounds is the plural of bloodhound.

Meaning of bloodhound

Noun

bloodhound (plural bloodhounds)

  1. A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners.
    • Someone stole our bloodhounds, but we got the backup bloodhounds to chase the first tier of bloodhounds.2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Police Officer
  2. (figuratively, informal) A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues.
  3. (archaic) A bloodthirsty person.
    • For now the despot’s blood-hounds with their prey,
      Unarmed and unaware, were gorging deep
      Their gluttony of death; the loose array
      Of horsemen o’er the wide fields murdering sweep,
      And with loud laughter for their tyrant reap
      A harvest sown with other hopes; […]1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...

Questions about bloodhounds

What is bloodhounds the plural of?
Bloodhounds is the plural of bloodhound.

Words near bloodhounds in the dictionary

  1. bloodhorse
  2. bloodhorses
  3. bloodhound
  4. bloodhounding
  5. bloodhoundish
  6. bloodhounds
  7. bloodhouse
  8. bloodhouses
  9. bloodhungry
  10. bloodied
  11. bloodied nose

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bloodhounds (page history and authors); bloodhound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bloodhounds.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bloodhounds. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.