colt

C2+ Topic:Animals

US /koʊlt/ UK /kəʊlt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a young male horse, usually under four years old

The colt galloped across the paddock at the first taste of freedom.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a young male horse, usually... foal filly yearling

Opposites

stallion mare

Word family

Derived forms coltish

Related forms colthood

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Proverbs (1)

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A ragged colt may make a good horse

Etymology

From Old English colt ('young ass or camel, young horse'), of Germanic origin, perhaps related to a base meaning 'young animal'; compare Swedish dialectal kult ('young boar, stocky child').

colt Old English

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Topics

Animals

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# colt

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /koʊlt/
**IPA (UK):** /kəʊlt/

## Meanings
1. a young male horse, usually under four years old

## Examples
- The colt galloped across the paddock at the first taste of freedom.

## Synonyms
- foal
- filly
- yearling

## Antonyms
- stallion
- mare

## Derived Forms
- coltish

## Related Forms
- colthood

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: colt

## Etymology
From Old English colt ('young ass or camel, young horse'), of Germanic origin, perhaps related to a base meaning 'young animal'; compare Swedish dialectal kult ('young boar, stocky child').

## AI Etymology
Colt comes from Old English colt ('young ass or camel, young horse'), of Germanic origin, perhaps related to a base meaning 'young animal'; compare Swedish dialectal kult ('young boar, stocky child'). The historical trail runs through colt in Old English. Used as a noun, colt now means "a young male horse, usually under four years old", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as coltish and related forms such as colthood. The word is therefore part of the inherited Germanic layer of English, even where later usage has narrowed, broadened, or specialized the sense.

## Topics
- Animals

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