Meaning

23 senses
  1. (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.

  2. 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

  3. (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.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A male horse, as opposed to a mare.

  5. (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

  6. 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?

  7. (countable, uncountable)A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.

  8. 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.

  9. (countable, historical, uncountable)A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

  10. 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.

  11. (countable, uncountable)A frame with legs, used to support something.

    a clothes horse; a sawhorse

    ко́злыkózly

  12. A type of equipment.

    (countable, uncountable)A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

More definitions
  • 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 sentences
  1. The 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.

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  2. He is strong as a horse.

    Він сильний як кінь.

    ruОн силён как бык.

    deEr ist so stark wie ein Pferd.

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  3. He likes all animals except horses.

    Йому подобаються всі тварини, окрім коней.

    ruОн любит всех животных, кроме лошадей.

    deEr mag alle Tiere außer Pferden.

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  4. I'm as hungry as a horse.

    Я голодний як вовк.

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  5. He's as strong as a horse.

    Він сильний як кінь.

    ruОн силён как бык.

    deEr ist so stark wie ein Pferd.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
members of the species Equus ferus:
Русский
By meaning 4
gymnastic equipment:
members of the species Equus ferus:
frame with legs used for support or for holding objects:
slang: heroin:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
gymnastic equipment:
members of the species Equus ferus:
related or similar species:
knight in chess — see also knight:
cavalry soldiers:

Origin

From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Ger

From 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: horses
Singularhorse
Pluralhorses

regular

Synonyms

51 synonyms
animal:caple
chess piece:knight
illegitimate study aid:dobbinponytrot
gymnastic equipment:pommel horsevaulting horse
Close in meaning
  • 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 words

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

See also

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