horses

English

Pronunciation

  • (with the horse-hoarse merger)
    • (General American) IPA(key): /hoɹsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /hoɹsəz/
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz
  • (without the horsehoarse merger)
    • (rhotic) IPA(key): /hɔːɹsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /hɔːɹsəz/
    • (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /hɔːsɪz/, (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /hɔːsəz/

Noun

horses

  1. plural of horse
  2. (slang) Horsepower.
    • 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
      I got four hundred horses tucked under the hood.
    • 1994, Blood (The X-Files), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      This is a diagnostic test of your engine. You're supposed to have an output of a hundred and sixty-eight horses at sixty-two hundred R.P.M.s. You're nowhere near that.

Verb

horses

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of horse

Anagrams

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxor.ses/, [ˈhorˠ.zes]

Noun

horses

  1. genitive singular of hors
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