RACEHORSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does racehorse mean? 

• RACEHORSE (noun)
  The noun RACEHORSE has 1 sense:

1. a horse bred for racing

  Familiarity information: RACEHORSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RACEHORSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A horse bred for racing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bangtail; race horse; racehorse

Hypernyms ("racehorse" is a kind of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "racehorse"):

thoroughbred (a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares)

pony (an informal term for a racehorse)

yearling (a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth)

two-year-old horse; two year old (a racehorse that is two years old)

three-year-old horse; three year old (a racehorse that is three years old)

dark horse (a racehorse about which little is known)

mudder (a racehorse that runs well on a muddy racetrack)

nonstarter (a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered)

pacemaker; pacer; pacesetter (a horse used to set the pace in racing)

trotter; trotting horse (a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing)

 Context examples 

Even the honest and brave pugilist was found to draw villainy round him, just as the pure and noble racehorse does.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sketches of boxers, of ballet-girls, and of racehorses alternated with a sensuous Fragonard, a martial Girardet, and a dreamy Turner.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I say again that, if the ring has fallen low, it is not in the main the fault of the men who have done the fighting, but it lies at the door of the vile crew of ring-side parasites and ruffians, who are as far below the honest pugilist as the welsher and the blackleg are below the noble racehorse which serves them as a pretext for their villainies.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)