horse
Definition
A large domesticated animal with hooves, used for riding and pulling loads; a piece of gymnastics equipment; heroin (slang)
To remember it
Picture the running horse with its flowing mane and tail. Think of how horses are fast and strong animals that we often see in nature.
Examples
- A1
I love horses — they are beautiful and intelligent animals.
- A1
She rides her horse every morning before school.
- A2
The horse won the race by a length and the crowd went wild.
- A2
In medieval times, knights fought on horseback with lances and swords.
- B1
The gymnast executed a perfect vault over the pommel horse, earning the highest score of the competition.
- B1
The proverb says you should not look a gift horse in the mouth — meaning you should not question or find fault with something given to you for free.
- B2
Horse-trading — in its figurative sense — refers to shrewd and protracted bargaining, typically in political contexts where the exact terms of an agreement are negotiated far from public view.
- B2
The horse has been central to human civilisation for millennia — as a mode of transportation, an instrument of war, and a source of agricultural labour — but its role has been almost entirely displaced by mechanisation in the past century.
