Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A horse used in combat; a charger.
- noun Informal A person who has been through many battles, struggles, or difficult experiences.
- noun Informal A musical or dramatic work that has been performed so often that it has become widely familiar.
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- noun historical Any
horse used in horse-cavalry , but especially one bearing anarmored knight . - noun theater , (
music ) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as withHamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has becomehackneyed . - noun An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
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- noun an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
- noun a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition
- noun horse used in war
Etymologies
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Examples
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She might take exception to it because a Georgia warhorse is a big grasshopper.
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She might take exception to it because a Georgia warhorse is a big grasshopper.
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She might take exception to it because a Georgia warhorse is a big grasshopper.
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She might take exception to it because a Georgia warhorse is a big grasshopper.
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And then, of course, if you're wearing pads, you can always tell the readers that their cherished warhorse is kind of lousy.
Four Once Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Another warhorse is John Ciardi’s How Does a Poem Mean?, first published in 1959 and widely used in high schools and colleges in its day.
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Zhu pointed out that simultaneously keeping Dali "neither as enemy nor as subject was the best of all measures to handle the barbarians" (yu kou bu neng, yu chen bu de, zuide yurong shangce) .111 However, military demand instead drove Song China to open its gates to Dali, because the Dali Kingdom cultivated a local animal that Song China did not produce but badly desired, that is, the warhorse.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Currently, however, he's in legal-eagle mode, suited up as "warhorse" lawyer Jack
Playbill.com : News 2010
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I shouldn't refer to the queen of pop as a "warhorse", they shoot old horses, don't they?
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I shouldn ` t refer to the queen of pop as a "warhorse", they shoot old horses, don ` t they?
dailyword commented on the word warhorse
There was a movie with this title.
December 24, 2012
ry commented on the word warhorse
That movie was called War Horse, actually
December 24, 2012