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Wild Hunts

Wild Hunts is the plural of Wild Hunt.

Meaning of Wild Hunt

Noun

Wild Hunt (plural Wild Hunts)

  1. (European) A spectral hunting party of riders and hounds, often led by a supernatural huntsman, that sweeps noisily through the sky or countryside at night or during storms, especially in winter; traditionally lacking a visible quarry and regarded as an omen of death or disaster.
    • Before the Venusberg — according to the preface to the Heldenbuch — sits the trusty Eckhard, and warns people; as he also rides and warns before the Wild Hunt.1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume I, London: Edward Lumley, page 287

Questions about Wild Hunts

What is Wild Hunts the plural of?
Wild Hunts is the plural of Wild Hunt.

Words near Wild Hunts in the dictionary

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  2. wild hair
  3. wild horse
  4. wild horses
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  6. Wild Hunts
  7. Wild Huntsman
  8. Wild Huntsmen
  9. wild hyacinth
  10. wild hyacinths
  11. wild indigo

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