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venery

/ˈvɛnəɹi/

venery noun: the hunting of wild animals.

Noun (1)

venery (usually uncountable, plural veneries)

  1. (usually) The hunting of wild animals.
    • There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or venation, five of Halieuticks or piſcation, commented and publiſhed by Ritterhuſius; wherein deſcribing beaſts of venery and fiſhes[…]1650, Thomas Browne, “A brief enumeration of Authors”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 24
    • But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of...1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.
  2. (usually) Game animals.

Noun (2)

venery (countable and uncountable, plural veneries)

  1. The pursuit of sexual indulgence or pleasure.
    • […] Opium it ſelf is conceived to extimulate unto venery, and for that intent is ſometimes uſed by Turkes, Perſians, and moſt orientall Nations; […]1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Mandrakes of Leah”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 7th book, page 301
    • [T]he ſalt of vipers is alſo thought to exceed any other animal ſalt vvhatever, in giving vigour to the languid circulation, and prompting to venery.1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Venemous Serpents in General”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John]...

venery meaning in Tamil and Urdu

venery in Tamil

பாலுணர்வு, பாலுறவு

venery in Urdu

کثرت جماع, مباشرت, مقاربت, شکار

Forms of venery

pluralveneries
alternative form (archaic)venarie

Origin of venery

From Middle English venerie, borrowed from Middle French venerie, from Old French venerie (“hunting”), derived from vener, from Latin vēnor (“to hunt”).

From Middle English venery, venerie, venerye, borrowed from Medieval Latin veneria, from venus (“love”).

Words formed from venery

Phrases with venery

Questions about venery

What does venery mean?
Venery means the hunting of wild animals.
What is venery in Tamil?
Venery in Tamil is பாலுணர்வு, பாலுறவு. See Venery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is venery?
Venery is a noun.
How do you pronounce venery?
Venery is pronounced /ˈvɛnəɹi/.
What is the plural of venery?
The plural of venery is veneries.

Words near venery in the dictionary

  1. venerological
  2. venerologist
  3. venerologists
  4. venerology
  5. venerous
  6. venery
  7. venesect
  8. venesected
  9. venesection
  10. venesections
  11. venesector

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: venery (page history and authors); venery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); venery (Urdu Wiktionary) (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.

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