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Plural of bloodhound

regular plural

The plural of bloodhound is bloodhounds.

Forms of bloodhound

Singularbloodhound /ˈblʌd.haʊnd/
Pluralbloodhounds
Countablecountable

Bloodhounds in a sentence

  • 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
  • It involves bloodhounds and horse riders pursuing not foxes but cross-country runners.2025 November 15, Matthew Weaver, “‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting”, in The…. From the entry cross-country
  • There are also another 26 packs of draghounds and bloodhounds which exist purely to hunt a runner or trail.2015 October 31, Tim Bonner, “Ten years on, and we're still here”, in Western Daily Press, UK, retrieved 15 Nov 2015. From the entry draghound

Meaning of bloodhound

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues.
  3. noun A bloodthirsty person.

Full definition of bloodhound

Questions about the plural of bloodhound

What is the plural of bloodhound?
The plural of bloodhound is bloodhounds.
Is bloodhound countable?
Bloodhound is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bloodhound (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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