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Definitions: Thoroughbred |
ThoroughbredAdjective1. Having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal. Noun1. A well-bred person. 2. A pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thoroughbred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: ThoroughbredSynonyms: pedigree(a) (adj), pedigreed (adj), pureblooded (adj), pureblood (n), purebred (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: mixed-blood (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed in 18th century England when English mares were bred with imported Arabian stallions to create a distance racer.
All modern thorougbreds descend from one of three stallions: the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerly Turk, together with around 35 mares. The first part of the horse's name is an indicator of the owner, the second part is an indicator of the horse's origin. The term "thoroughbred" was first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick.
In the United States the registry for these horses is maintained by the Jockey Club.
Although the thoroughbred is primarily bred for racing, the breed is also used for show jumping and combined training due to their athleticism.
The typical thoroughbred stands 16 hands high, and is bay, chestnut, black or gray in color. The face and lower legs may be marked with white, but white will generally not appear on the body. A handful of non-albino Thoroughbreds have been born with white coats. For many years, the Jockey Club would not register a Thoroughbred as white; most such horses were registered as grays. However, the Jockey Club now recognizes white as a legitimate, though exceedingly rare, color.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thoroughbred."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Carrier | Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud. |
Fashion | Polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed, degage; janty, jaunty; dashing, fast. |
Intrinsicality | Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual. |
Skill | Adjective: skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart; (active); proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant; (knowing). |
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Crosswords: Thoroughbred |
| English words defined with "thoroughbred": bloodstock, bluegrass, Bluegrass Country, Bluegrass Region ♦ Lexington. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thoroughbred": Dunghill! ♦ Panurge ♦ Shire Horses. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Thoroughbred (1974) The Thoroughbred Stormy (1954) Life of a Thoroughbred (1941) Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938) Thoroughbred (1936) | |
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 | Barn and machine shed of G.H. West, owner-operator of three hundred twenty acres near Estherville, Iowa. He does a great deal of thoroughbred cattle breeding.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Prize-winning thoroughbred rams feeding on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Prize-winning thoroughbred rams feeding on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Prize-winning thoroughbred rams feeding on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The sparkling comedy, Thoroughbred by Ralph Lumley.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Thoroughbred" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.63% of the time. "Thoroughbred" is used about 59 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) | 57.63% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.37% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
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| USA | Thoroughbred Interest, Inc. |
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Expression using "thoroughbred": thoroughbred horse. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "thoroughbred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prej race të pastër (full-blooded, pedigree, pure-bred), i mësuar (learned, lettered, performing, potty-trained, trained, used, wonted), i edukuar (educated, fair-spoken, highbred, ladylike, mannerly, polite, trained, well bred, well educated, well-conducted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ممتاز (admirable, banner, best, bonny, boss, brave, choice, clipping, cool, dandy, deluxe, distingue, distinguished, ducky, elegant, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extra, famous, fancy, fine, first class, first rate, first-string, mighty, noble, of first degree, outstanding, premium, prime, select, splendid, star, stellar, super, superb, superior, swell, thumbs up, tiptop, top notch, vintage, wizard), حيوان أصيل, حصان أصيل, أصيل (evening, genuine, original, proper, purebred, quaint, sincere, trueborn, well bred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | юначен (fearless, heroic, valiant), смел (adventurous, ambitious, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dashing, gallant, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, high-hearted, high-spirited, manful, manly, martial, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, provocative, slashing, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, venturesome), чистокръвно животно, чистокръвен (full-blooded, hot-blooded, pedigree, pure, purebred, straight-bred, true-bred, well bred), породист (highbred, pedigree, purebred, well bred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 纯血种马. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ušlechtilý (noble, noble-minded), plnokrevník, plnokrevný, èistokrevný (full-blooded, pedigree, purebred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fuldblodshest (thoroughbred horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | volbloed paard (thoroughbred horse), volbloed (thoroughbred horse), rasduif (thoroughbred pigeon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کاردیده , خوش جنس , اصیل (Genteel, Gentleman, Highborn, Noble, Purebred, Unfeigned, Wellborn), باتجربه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | täysverinen, rotuhevonen (bloodhorse), rotueläin (pedigree animal), puhdasrotuinen hevonen, puhdasrotuinen (pure-blooded), jalorotuinen (pedigree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pur-sang, bête de race. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vollblut (blooded, bloodied), vollblütig (fullblooded, full-blooded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθαρόαιμοσ (blooded, pure blood), ευγενήσ (civil, courteous, courtly, debonair, gallant, genteel, gentle, gentlemanly, gracious, kindly, ladylike, nobble, nobleman, patrician, polite, soulful, urbane, well mannered), αμιγούσ γένουσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתורבת (civilized, cultivated, cultured, domesticated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | telivér (full-blood, full-blooded), fajtiszta (pedigree, pure-bred, true-bred), telivér ló, arisztokratikus (aristocratic), alaposan képzett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | purosangue (full-blooded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 純種 (purebred), サラブレッド種 (company employee, salami, salary, salary man, salicylic, Saranwrap, sari), サラダ油 (salad dressing, salad oil, sarabande, sarafan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | サラブレッドしゅ, サラブレッド , じゅんしゅ (Imperial visit, observance, purebred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 순종 (Obeying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fuilloilagh, fuilloil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oroughbredthay de sangue puro (full-blooded, true-bred), de raça pura (full-blooded, pediment, racy, true-bred), com distinção (gentleness, true-bred), com brio (true-bred). (various references) pursânge (clean-bred, full-blooded, full-bred, pedigree, pedigreed, pure, true born, well bred), persoanã finã, graţios (airily, daintily, flowing, graceful, gracefully, light, lightly, neat, sightly, winning, winsome), de rasã (fancy, pedigreed, racial), cal pursânge, animal de rasã. (various references) хорошо воспитанный (highbred, true-bred, well-bred, well-brought-up), чистокровный (blooded, blue-blooded, full-blooded, purebred, true born, true-bred), породистый (highbred, pedigreed, purebred, well bred). (various references) sve što je dobre rase, rasan (purebred), čistokrvan (purebred, true born). (various references) de pura sangre (blooded, pureblood, purebred), de pura raza (pureblood, purebred), de casta. (various references) rasren (purebred), fullblod (bloodstock, full blood). (various references) เป็นเนื้อแท้, บุคคลที่ได้รับการศึกษามาอย่างดี. (various references) soylu (aristocrat, aristocratic, aristocratical, blue blood, born in the purple, genteel, gently born, grand, high, noble, noble blood, of gentle birth, of good family, patrician, pedigreed, princely, silk stocking, titled, truebred, u, well born, well bred), safkan (blooded, clean-bred, pedigree, pedigreed, pure, pure blooded, pureblooded, purebred, true), kültürlü (cultivated, cultured, enlightened, intelligent, sophisticated, well educated), gösterişli (artsy, Arty, arty-crafty, baronial, bombastic, chichi, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashily, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, viewy), bilgili (deeply read, erudite, informed, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, read, scholarly, sophisticated, versed, well informed, wise), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market). (various references) чистокровна тварина, чистокровний (blooded, full blood, pure, pure blooded, pure-bred, whole-bred), бездоганно вихована людина, бездоганний (blameless, faultless, flawless, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, paragon, pure, scrupulous, stainless, taintless, unexceptionable, unimpeachable). (various references) hăng hái (ardently, bean-fed, corky, dashing, enthusiastic, hot-spririted, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, strong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thoroughbred": thoroughbreds. (additional references) | |
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"Thoroughbred" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thoroughbread, throughbred. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thoroughbred" (pronounced ther"ōbre"d) |
| 4 | -b r e" d | bread, bred, interbred, purebred. |
| 3 | -r e" d | dread, read, red, Redd, retread, shred, spread, thread, tread, unread, widespread. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-h-h-o-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: thorougher. | |
-4 letters: obtruder, rebought, thorough. | |
-5 letters: bordure, borough, boughed, brooder, brother, brought, burgher, doubter, drought, grouted, grouter, obtrude, oughted, outbred, outdoer, outrode, redoubt, redroot, roughed, rougher, theorbo, through, toughed, tougher, trudger. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-g-h-h-o-o-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: thoroughbreds. | |
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