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horse

/hoɹs/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.76 in modern English

Syllables
horse
IPA
/hoɹs/
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Uncountable

noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Countable; Informal; Uncountable

noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Countable; Slang; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós? Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-? Proto-Indo-European *wers- Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā Proto-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šāder.? Proto-Germanic *hrussą Proto-West Germanic *hross Old English hors Middle English hors English horse 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. Cognates Cognate with Scots horse (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Cimbrian ross (“horse”), Dutch hors, ros (“horse”), German Ross, Roß (“horse”), Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk hors (“horse, mare”), Faroese hors, ross (“horse”), Icelandic hross (“horse”), Swedish russ (“horse”); also Cornish karr (“car”), Welsh car (“car; cart, wagon”), Latin currus (“car, chariot; wagon, wain”), Ancient Greek ἐπίκουρος (epíkouros, “aiding, assisting; defending; ally, helper; hireling”), Tocharian A kursär (“vehicle; mile”), Tocharian B kwarsär (“course; path”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: hors, *hross, *hrussą, *ḱr̥sós, *ḱers-, horsen

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /hoɹs/
  • British English: /hɔːs/

Usage

Inflected Forms

horses (plural) harse (alternative, pronunciation spelling) hawss (alternative, pronunciation spelling) hoss (alternative, pronunciation spelling) horses (present, singular) horsing (participle, present) horsed (participle, past) horsed (past) H.O.R.S.E. (alternative)

Derived Forms

ahorse antihorse bathorse battlehorse behorsed boathorse carthorse clotheshorse coachhorse darkhorse dishorse drayhorse

Phrases

a camel is a horse designed by a committee a camel is a horse made by a committee a camel is a horse made by committee a-cock-horse African horse sickness a horse apiece and the horse you rode in on a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

Frequently Paired Words

equid equine gallop canter walk trot gee haw

Synonyms

Morgan's mule Spanish donkey horse about horse around H smack Big H boy brown sugar brown bujj diacetylmorphine

Homonyms

hoarse

Rhymes With

course force source divorce enforce reinforce endorse morse remorse coarse norse outsource

Questions

How do you pronounce horse?
The recorded pronunciation is /hoɹs/.
What does horse mean?
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
Where does horse come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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