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Definition: Greyhound |
GreyhoundNoun1. A tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "greyhound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Greyhound \Grey"hound`\, noun. [Old English graihund, greihound, greahund, grihond, Icelandic greyhundr; grey greyhound + hundr dog; compare to Anglo-Saxon gr[imac]ghund. The origin of the first syllable is unknown.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Greyhound (Prov. 30:31), the rendering of the Hebrew _zarzir mothnayim_, meaning literally "girded as to the lions." Some (Gesen.; R.V. marg.) render it "war-horse." The LXX. and Vulgate versions render it "cock." It has been by some interpreters rendered also "stag" and "warrior," as being girded about or panoplied, and "wrestler." The greyhound, however, was evidently known in ancient times, as appears from Egyptian monuments. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | A greyhound is a fortunate object to see in your dream. If it is following a young girl, you will be surprised with a legacy from unknown people. If a greyhound is owned by you, it signifies friends where enemies were expected. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Greyhound "A greyhounde shoulde be heded like a snake, And neked like a Drake; Foted like a Kat, Tayled like a Rat; Syded like a Teme, Chyned like a Beme." (Dame Berner.) "Syded like a teme," probably means both sides alike; a plough-team being meant. Greyhound A public-house sign, in honour of Henry VII., whose badge it was. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Greyhound Alternative names
English Greyhound Country of origin Egypt Classification
FCI: Group 10 Section 3 AKC: Hound ANKC: Group 4 (Hounds) CKC: Group 2 - Hounds KC(UK): Hound NZKC: Hounds Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC, KC(UK), NZKC The greyhound is a dog in the sighthound family.
It is an ancient breed and its origins can be traced back to ancient Egypt. A proof for that is the bas-relief, found in an Egyptian tomb, built in 4000 year BC. At first, greyhounds were used mainly for hunting in the open, but later on were specialized in dog racing. It is considered that they were introduced to England in the 5th and sixth 6th centuries BC by the Celts during their invasions.
Greyhounds are the fastest running of all dogs, with their long legs and lanky frames. They are commonly known for their use on the racetrack, where they can reach speeds up to 45 mph (72 km/h). The conditions under which racing greyhounds are kept are considered by some people to be inhumane. In the late 20th century many greyhound adoption groups began taking greyhounds from the racetracks when they could not compete and placing them in adoptive homes. Before this, most retired greyhounds were killed, some still are.
Some greyhounds never race either because they are too slow, have physical defects or do not have the required temperament. Most finish racing between two and three years of age.
Although Greyhounds are extremely fast dogs, they are not high energy dogs. They are sprinters and do not require much exercise once they leave the track. They are quiet, gentle animals.
Greyhounds make good pets because of their mild and affectionate character. They can get along well with children and family pets, including cats. The greyhounds are very loyal, tractable dogs, with developed intellect and very brave. Their talents include sighting and hunting. They do not have undercoats and are considered "hypoallergenic."
Male dogs are usually 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) tall and their weight is about 65-70 pounds (29-32 kg). Female greyhounds are a bit smaller - they are 27-28 inches (68-71 cm) tall and weigh about 60-65 pounds (27-29 kg). Their coat is very short and easy for combing. It can be white, brindle, fawn, fallow, black, gray, white, red, and blue in colour and these colors can also appear with white in the coat as well. Greyhounds should be shampooed 'only' when necessary. If you would like to add gleam to the coat, rub it with a chamois cloth occasionally.
It is wise to keep them on a leash because their hunting background has instilled a strong desire to chase things. Greyhounds can live in an urban setting but require moderate exercise on a regular basis. They enjoy walking and running outside.
Greyhound Lines, Inc. is a large US bus company.
Greyhound was a famous standardbred horse.
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A greyhound is a cocktail consisting of 6 ounces of grapefruit juice and 1.5 ounces of vodka, mixed and served over ice. Salt the rim of the glass to turn it into a salty dog.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Greyhound (cocktail)."
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Greyhound was a grey horse by Guy Abbey out of Elizabeth by Peter the Great . Born in 1932, Greyhound was the outstanding trotting horse of his day and arguably the most outstanding in the history of the sport.
In 1935, he won the Hambletonian race and in 1938 he lowered the record time for trotting the mile to 1:55¼. This record stood until 1969. He trotted 25 two-minute miles and at one time held fourteen world records. He was retired in 1940 to Red Gate Farm in St. Charles, Illinois. Greyhound was so popular that his owner, Col. Edward J. Baker, allowed visitors to see the horse until February 1965 when he died at the age of 33.
Greyhound was honored as Horse of the Century after his death.
For links to other harness horse information and biographies, see also:
- Harness racing
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| GRA | English | Greyhound Racing Association | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Man of war; (combatant); transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound. |
Velocity | Eagle, antelope, courser, race horse, gazelle, greyhound, hare, doe, squirrel, camel bird, chickaree, chipmunk, hackee, ostrich, scorcher. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Greyhound |
| English words defined with "greyhound": Brinjaree ♦ Grayhound ♦ Italian greyhound ♦ Rache ♦ Saltant ♦ whippet, Wolf dog. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "greyhound": Beth Gelert ♦ Misnomers. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Iris? She has given more rides than Greyhound! (Can't Buy Me Love; writing credit: Michael Swerdlick) | |
Lyrics | And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus (Ramblin' Man; performing artist: Allman Brothers) Rode in on the Greyhound, I'll be walkin' out if I go. (LODI; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home, they all say ("On Broadway"; performing artist: The Drifters) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Greyhound and the Rabbit (1940) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | John Lewis talks with fellow "Freedom fighter" James Zwerg who was brutally beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, after riding into town on a Greyhound bus. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Steamer Greyhound. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Str. Greyhound. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Indianapolis, Indiana. A bus being boarded by passengers at the Greyhound bus terminal. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Greyhound bus on U.S. Highway No. 1, near Saint Dennis, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Greyhound bus that has been stopped at a filling station to get water between Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two Greyhound buses going from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A house as seen from the window of a Greyhound bus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Washington Court House, Ohio. A schoolboy, who rides to and from school daily on a Greyhound bus, waiting outside the depot. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bus passengers on their way from Cincinnati, Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky on a Greyhound bus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Greyhound Sunset" by Jordan Balagot Commentary: "A quick snap I took at a rest stop traveling via greyhound." | "Poly thistle 1" by Kenneth Love Commentary: "An italian greyhound. images might be good for dog food/health work." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Greyhound" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.18% of the time. "Greyhound" is used about 156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.18% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.26% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.92% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 156 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "greyhound": greyhound racing ♦ italian greyhound ♦ ocean greyhound. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "greyhound": greyhound-like, greyhound-style. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
greyhound | 17,331 | bus.com greyhound | 87 |
greyhound bus | 7,573 | italian greyhound rescue | 82 |
greyhound bus line | 2,532 | bus company greyhound | 81 |
italian greyhound | 876 | greyhound ticket | 80 |
greyhound canada | 807 | go greyhound | 72 |
greyhound bus schedule | 696 | greyhound puppy | 71 |
greyhound line | 634 | italian greyhound puppy | 68 |
greyhound racing | 410 | greyhound travel | 68 |
bus fare greyhound | 406 | bus canada greyhound | 67 |
greyhound bus station | 318 | association greyhound national | 64 |
greyhound rescue | 308 | greyhound bus terminal | 56 |
bus greyhound ticket | 288 | phoenix greyhound park | 56 |
bus greyhound service | 228 | com greyhound | 52 |
greyhound adoption | 226 | greyhound park wichita | 52 |
buslines greyhound | 215 | adopt a greyhound | 51 |
greyhound dog | 152 | italian greyhound breeders | 51 |
gulf greyhound park | 132 | greyhound park southland | 50 |
greyhound schedule | 124 | backseat bus greyhound | 49 |
bus greyhound travel | 94 | greyhound shipping | 49 |
fare greyhound | 93 | greyhound station | 48 |
greyhound picture | 48 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "greyhound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zagar (courser, hound, pointer, rascal, retriever). (various references) | |
Arabic | لوح المركم, السلوقي كلب الصيد (saluki). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хрътка (hound, sleuthhound). (various references) | |
Chinese | 灰獵犬 . (various references) | |
Czech | chrt. (various references) | |
Dutch | windhond, hazewindhond, hazewind. (various references) | |
Esperanto | leporhundo. (various references) | |
Farsi | تازی (Arabic), سگ بازی . (various references) | |
Finnish | vinttikoira. (various references) | |
French | levrette, lévrier. (various references) | |
German | windhund. (various references) | |
Greek | λαγωνικό (bloodhound, harrier, pointer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | agár. (various references) | |
Indonesian | grehon. (various references) | |
Italian | levriere. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | グレートブリテン島 (grade, grade up, grain whisky, grape, grape juice, grapefruit, grave, gravy, gray, Great Britain, Greco-Roman style, Gregorian, grey). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | グレーハウンド . (various references) | |
Manx | coo liauyr, coo glass (tope). (various references) | |
Norwegian | mynde. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyhoundgray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galgo (courser), navio muito rpido, lebréu, cachorro galgo. (various references) | |
Romanian | ogar (courser). (various references) | |
Russian | борзая (borzoi, whippet, wolfhound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hrt, brz kao hrt. (various references) | |
Spanish | galgo (grayhound, hound). (various references) | |
Swedish | vinthund. (various references) | |
Thai | เรือเดินสมุทรเร็ว (ocean greyhound). (various references) | |
Turkish | tazı (beagle, bloodhound, harrier, hound, whippet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хорт (grayhound). (various references) | |
Welsh | milgi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai alektwr emperipatwn qhleiaiV euyucoV kai tragoV hgoumenoV aipoliou kai basileuV dhmhgorwn en eqnei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Gallus succinctus lumbos et aries nec est rex qui resistat ei |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And a ram, and ther is not that withstonde to hym. And that fool shal seme, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A greyhound; a he-goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | Ang iro sa pangayam; ang kanding nga lake usab; Ug ang hari diin batok kaniya nga walay mga pag-alsa. |
| Chinese | 獵 狗 、 公 山 羊 、 和 無 人 能 敵 的 君 王 。 |
| Croatian | pijetao što se odvažno šeæe meðu kokošima; jarac koji vodi stado; i kralj sa svojom vojskom. |
| Danish | en sadlet Stridshest, en Buk, en Konge midt i sin Hær. |
| Dutch | Een windhond van goede lenden, of een bok; en een koning, die niet tegen te staan is. |
| Finnish | hevonen, solakkakylki, tai kauris, ja kuningas joukkonsa johdossa. |
| French | Le cheval tout équipé; ou le bouc; Et le roi à qui personne ne résiste. |
| German | ein Windhund von guten Lenden, und ein Widder, und ein König, wider den sich niemand legen darf. |
| Haitian Creole | Se bouk kabrit. Se chwal sele bride. Se wa lè y'ap mache devan lame yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | kambing jantan, ayam jantan yang berjalan tegak, dan raja di depan rakyatnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan anjing pemburu yang baik lambungnya, dan lagi seorang raja yang tiada terlawan. |
| Italian | il gallo pettoruto e il caprone e un re alla testa del suo popolo. |
| Maori | Ko te kuri horo; ko te koati toa ano hoki; a ko te kingi, kahore nei tetahi e maranga ake ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | hesten med gjord om lendene, bukken, og en konge i spissen for sitt folk. |
| Portuguese | o galo emproado, o bode, e o rei à frente do seu povo. |
| Rumanian | calul knchingat gata, wi yapul; wi kmpqratul, cqruia nimeni nu -i poate sta kmpotrivq. - |
| Russian | ЛПОШ Й ЛПЪЕМ, Й ГБТШ УТЕДЙ ОБТПДБ УЧПЕЗП. |
| Spanish | el gallo erguido, el macho cabrío; y el rey, a quien nadie resiste. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "greyhound": greyhounds. (additional references) | |
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"Greyhound" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: greyhouns, Greylorn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "greyhound" (pronounced grā"hou'nd) |
| 4 | -h ou' n d | foxhound, horehound. |
| 3 | -ou' n d | background, battleground, campground, earthbound, eastbound, fairground, foreground, hidebound, homebound, outbound, playground, runaround, snowbound, southbound, spellbound, turnaround, underground, westbound. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-n-o-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: hydrogen. | |
-2 letters: guerdon, hounder, roughed, roughen, undergo, younger. | |
-3 letters: dehorn, doughy, drogue, enduro, enough, eryngo, gerund, gorhen, gourde, ground, groyne, gurney, horned, hoyden, hunger, hungry, nudger, rehung, rogued, rouged, undoer, yonder. | |
-4 letters: dogey, dough, doyen, drone, dungy, erugo, genro, goner, gored, gourd, grody, guyed, gyred, gyron, hedgy, henry, heron, honed, honer, honey, horde, horny. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-n-o-r-u-y" | |
+1 letter: greyhounds. | |
+2 letters: hydrogenous. | |
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