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happy hunting ground

happy hunting ground noun: a Native American idea of the afterlife, conceived of as a paradise in which hunting is plentiful and game unlimited.

Noun

happy hunting ground (plural happy hunting grounds)

  1. (in plural, often) A Native American idea of the afterlife, conceived of as a paradise in which hunting is plentiful and game unlimited.
    • “Hawk-eye! my fathers call me to the happy hunting-grounds. The path is clear, and the eyes of Mohegan grow young.[…]”1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC, page 282
    • Nevava, the great Ute chief of the White River tribes, had passed into the Happy Hunting Grounds and his sons each claimed the inheritance of ruler.1902, Merrill Tileston, chapter XVII, in Chiquita
  2. (broadly) A land of plenty.
    • Most of the Americans who had used up their credit at home and those whose incomes were insufficient for their wants, immediately migrated to these happy hunting grounds, where life was inexpensive and credit unlimited.1898, Eliot Gregory, “A Conquest of Europe”, in Worldly Ways & Byways, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
    • Victoria is not a happy hunting ground for the seeker after the picturesque.1944 July and August [1893], “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893

Forms of happy hunting ground

pluralhappy hunting grounds

Questions about happy hunting ground

What does happy hunting ground mean?
Happy hunting ground means a Native American idea of the afterlife, conceived of as a paradise in which hunting is plentiful and game unlimited.
What part of speech is happy hunting ground?
Happy hunting ground is a noun.
What is the plural of happy hunting ground?
The plural of happy hunting ground is happy hunting grounds.

Words near happy hunting ground in the dictionary

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