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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
One of a fictional race of exceptionally civilized creatures, who look exactly like horses, inhabiting the same land as the brutish Yahoos.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing
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noun
one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fictional character, fictitious character, character
History
Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels as a humorous, onomatopoeic play on the sound made by horses.
