horse

A1 Topic:Animals

US /hɔːs/ See IPA manual

noun verb Freq #857

Meanings

1

noun
A large four-legged animal that people ride and use for pulling loads.

A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
2

verb
To play around noisily or roughly.

Stop horsing around and get back to work.
3

noun
A piece of gymnastics equipment with legs that athletes jump over or perform on.

Let's see how she does on the horse.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

2 verb · to play around noisily or... horse abouthorse around

More cheval equine horsefleshhorsemeathorsykeffelnagpradsteedwidge

Word family

Forms horsedhorselesshorseshorsing

Derived forms a-cock-horseahorseantihorsebat-horsebattlehorsebehorsedbell-horseboathorsebottle-horsecarthorsecharley-horseclothes-horse

Related forms amble ambulancearabaazoturiabalk barb bard barn barouche baybellybandberlin

Common collocations

Etymology

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; ca…

hors Old English *hross Proto-West Germanic *hrussą Proto-Germanic *ḱr̥sós Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European

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Topics

Animals

# horse

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** hɔːs
**Frequency rank:** 857

## Meanings
1. A large four-legged animal that people ride and use for pulling loads.
2. To play around noisily or roughly.
3. A piece of gymnastics equipment with legs that athletes jump over or perform on.

## Examples
- A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
- Stop horsing around and get back to work.
- Let's see how she does on the horse.

## Synonyms
- cheval
- equine
- horseflesh
- horsemeat
- horsy
- keffel
- nag
- prad
- steed
- widge

## Derived Forms
- a-cock-horse
- ahorse
- antihorse
- bat-horse
- battlehorse
- behorsed
- bell-horse
- boathorse
- bottle-horse
- carthorse
- charley-horse
- clothes-horse

## Related Forms
- amble
- ambulance
- araba
- azoturia
- balk
- barb
- bard
- barn
- barouche
- bay
- bellyband
- berlin

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hors
- Root: *hross
- Root: *hrussą
- Root: *ḱr̥sós
- Root: *ḱers-

## Etymology
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; ca…

## AI Etymology
Horse comes 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. In current use, the main senses are “A large four-legged animal that people ride and use for pulling loads” and “To play around noisily or roughly”.

## Topics
- Animals

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