basset hound

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   smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears

   Synonymsbasset

   Broaderhound

Questions about basset hound

What does basset hound mean?

basset hound means "smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears".

What is another word for basset hound?

Close synonyms include basset. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basset hound a common word?

basset hound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.