The meaning of Sleuth

Sleuth – definition

noun
A person who investigates crimes; a detective.
Usage examples:
They make mi5 look like a bunch of amateur sleuths
Synonims:
Private detective Detective Private investigator Investigator Enquiry agent Private eye Pi Snoop Sleuth-hound Private dick Dick Peeper Shamus Gumshoe Hawkshaw Sherlock Pinkerton

verb
Carry out a careful investigation into a crime or mystery.
Usage examples:
There's nothing you can do but sleuth around until you find the answer

noun
Someone who discovers information about crimes

Sleuth translation into English

Sleuth: translate from English into Chinese

侦探

Sleuth: translate from English into Dutch

Speurder, Detective, Speurhond, Opspeuren, Detective zijn

Sleuth: translate from English into French

Détective, Limier, Fureter, Fouiner

Sleuth: translate from English into German

Spürhund, Schnüffler

Sleuth: translate from English into Hindi

खोजी कुत्ता, सूंघा, गुप्तचर, टोहिया, शिकारी कुत्ता जो गंध सूँघकर पीछा करता है, (विशे. अमरीका में) जासूस

Sleuth: translate from English into Italian

Investigatore, Bloodhound

Sleuth: translate from English into Korean

형사, 경찰견, ...의 뒤를 쫓다

Sleuth: translate from English into Russian

Сыщик, Быть сыщиком, Выслеживать, Собака-ищейка

Sleuth: translate from English into Spanish

Detective, Sabueso

Word origin

Middle English (originally in the sense ‘track’, in sleuth-hound): from Old Norse slóth ; compare with slot2. Current senses date from the late 19th century.

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Sleuth – similar words

sleuthed

verb
Carry out a careful investigation into a crime or mystery.
Usage examples:
There's nothing you can do but sleuth around until you find the answer

noun
A person who investigates crimes; a detective.
Usage examples:
They make mi5 look like a bunch of amateur sleuths

All meanings and translations of Sleuthed

Sleuth synonims

detective

noun
A person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.
Usage examples:
Detectives are anxious to interview anyone who saw the car

noun
A police officer whose job is to discover information about crimes and find out who is responsible for them

All meanings and translations of Detective

dick

noun
A man's penis.

verb
Waste time; mess around.

noun
A detective.
Usage examples:
The local dicks were convinced they'd nabbed a killer

All meanings and translations of Dick

gumshoe

noun
A detective.
Usage examples:
He'd been intrigued enough to put a gumshoe on the case

noun
Informal for detective (= someone whose job is to discover facts about a crime)

All meanings and translations of Gumshoe

hawkshaw

noun
A detective.

All meanings and translations of Hawkshaw

investigator

noun
A person who carries out a formal inquiry or investigation.
Usage examples:
Accident investigators are at the crash site

noun
A person whose job is to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. in order to discover the truth
Usage examples:
Investigators have studied the possible effects of contamination., a private investigator

All meanings and translations of Investigator

peeper

noun
A person who peeps at someone or something, especially in a voyeuristic way.
Usage examples:
Say i've written this news lead out of a city council meeting: ‘should the seattle police be able t…

noun
A small north american tree frog with a dark cross on the back, the males of which sing in early spring.
Usage examples:
Listen to calls of the frogs around you, or sample frog calls on the web: the spring peeper and the…

noun
A person's eye
Usage examples:
She flashes her big dark peepers at me., he takes care to protect his peepers when on the court., a…

All meanings and translations of Peeper

pi

pʌɪ

noun
The sixteenth letter of the greek alphabet (π, π), transliterated as ‘p’.
Usage examples:
This is true of no other letter of the alphabet except pi, and here the name is a natural developme…

symbol
The sixteenth letter of the greek alphabet ( π, π ), transliterated as ‘p’.

adjective
Short for pious.

All meanings and translations of Pi

shamus

noun
A private detective.
Usage examples:
Chandler, to whom pulp fiction had come late in life, had written his first marlowe novel, ‘the big…

All meanings and translations of Shamus

sherlock

noun
A person who investigates mysteries or shows great perceptiveness.
Usage examples:
It doesn't take a sherlock to figure out that she's lying to me

All meanings and translations of Sherlock

snoop

verb
Investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, especially information about someone's private affairs.
Usage examples:
Your sister might find the ring if she goes snooping about

noun
A furtive investigation.
Usage examples:
I could go back to her cottage and have another snoop

verb
Watch, observe, or inquire secretly

All meanings and translations of Snoop

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