Associations to the word «Sleuth»

Wiktionary

SLEUTH, noun. (obsolete) An animal’s trail or track.
SLEUTH, noun. (archaic) A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound.
SLEUTH, noun. A detective.
SLEUTH, verb. (intransitive) (transitive) To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime.
SLEUTH, noun. (obsolete) (uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth.
SLEUTH, noun. (rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

Dictionary definition

SLEUTH, noun. A detective who follows a trail.
SLEUTH, verb. Watch, observe, or inquire secretly.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin