horse
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and…A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
» The horse stopped and wouldn't move.
Das Pferd machte Halt und wollte nicht weiter.
Лошадь остановилась и отказывалась идти дальше.
Кінь зупинився й не хоче йти далі.
Meaning
23 senses(countable, uncountable)A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
She loved taming horses on Saturday.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
(countable, uncountable)Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
Pferd, Ross, Roß
ло́шадьlóšadʹ, коньkonʹ, ло́шадьlóšadʹ
кіньkinʹ
(countable, uncountable)Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
(countable, uncountable)A male horse, as opposed to a mare.
(sometimes, uncountable)Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
Kavallerie, Reiterei
A component of certain games.
(countable, informal, uncountable)The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
(countable, uncountable)A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A large and sturdy person.
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
(countable, historical, uncountable)A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
Equipment with legs.
(countable, uncountable)In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
(countable, uncountable)A frame with legs, used to support something.
a clothes horse; a sawhorse
ко́злыkózly
A type of equipment.
(countable, uncountable)A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Examples
2099 sentencesThe horse stopped and wouldn't move.
Кінь зупинився й не хоче йти далі.
ruЛошадь остановилась и отказывалась идти дальше.
deDas Pferd machte Halt und wollte nicht weiter.
He is strong as a horse.
Він сильний як кінь.
ruОн силён как бык.
deEr ist so stark wie ein Pferd.
He likes all animals except horses.
Йому подобаються всі тварини, окрім коней.
ruОн любит всех животных, кроме лошадей.
deEr mag alle Tiere außer Pferden.
I'm as hungry as a horse.
Я голодний як вовк.
He's as strong as a horse.
Він сильний як кінь.
ruОн силён как бык.
deEr ist so stark wie ein Pferd.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West GerFrom Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car and carrus.
Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of heroin and horse.
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Forms
plural: horsesSynonyms
51 synonyms- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times:Equus caballus
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs:gymnastic horse
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa):knight
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed:sawhorsesawbuckbuck
- troops trained to fight on horseback:cavalryhorse cavalry
Word family
578 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- ride a horse
- ride his horse
- riding horses
- eaten horse meat
- horse race
- off his horse
- had a horse
- after the horse
- fed the horse
- a horse trainer
- horse meat
- bet on horses