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ONE-HORSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does one-horse mean?
• ONE-HORSE (adjective)
The adjective ONE-HORSE has 1 sense:
1. small and remote and insignificant
Familiarity information: ONE-HORSE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small and remote and insignificant
Synonyms:
jerkwater; one-horse; pokey; poky
Context example:
passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
Similar:
provincial (characteristic of the provinces or their people)
Context examples
I jumped up, took my muff and umbrella, and hastened into the inn-passage: a man was standing by the open door, and in the lamp-lit street I dimly saw a one-horse conveyance.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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