adj
Meaning 1
Bred from pure stock.
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Standard Lemma guide
thoroughbred
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adj
Meaning 2
Well-bred and properly educated.
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred (“horse bred for racing”).
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Usage: alt-of
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noun
Meaning 4
Any purebred horse.
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Usage: broadly
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noun
Meaning 5
A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- That athlete is a real thoroughbred.
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noun
Meaning 6
A well-bred person.
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noun
Meaning 7
A horse of a breed derived from crosses between Arabian stallions and English mares, bred for racing, with its breeding history recorded in an official stud book.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 8
having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pedigree(a), pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded
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noun
Meaning 9
a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: purebred, pureblood
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Broader terms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
noun
Meaning 10
a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares
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Broader terms: racehorse, race horse, bangtail
Narrower terms: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault, Citation, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed
noun
Meaning 11
a well-bred person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: adult, grownup
History
Etymology
From thorough + bred.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أَصِيل (ʔaṣīl) — bred from pure stock
- Bulgarian: породист (porodist) — bred from pure stock
- Bulgarian: чистокръвен (čistokrǎven) — bred from pure stock
- German: vollblütig — bred from pure stock
- German: reinrassig — bred from pure stock
- Hungarian: telivér — bred from pure stock
- Japanese: サラブレッド (sarabureddo) — bred from pure stock
- Māori: horomata — bred from pure stock
- Norwegian Bokmål: fullblods — bred from pure stock
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fullblods — bred from pure stock
- Persian: نجاره (nejâre) — bred from pure stock
- Polish: czystej krwi — bred from pure stock
- Polish: pełnokrwisty — bred from pure stock
- Polish: rasowy — bred from pure stock
- Portuguese: puro sangue — bred from pure stock
- Russian: чистокро́вный (čistokróvnyj) — bred from pure stock
- Russian: чистопоро́дный (čistoporódnyj) — bred from pure stock
- Spanish: purasangre — bred from pure stock
- Spanish: de raza pura — bred from pure stock
- Swedish: renrasig — bred from pure stock
- Catalan: pura sang — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- French: pur-sang — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- German: Englisches Vollblut — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- German: Vollblut — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Irish: capall ardfhola — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Italian: purosangue inglese — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Italian: purosangue — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Japanese: サラブレッド (sarabureddo) — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Norwegian Bokmål: fullblodshest — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fullblodshest — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Portuguese: puro-sangue inglês — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Portuguese: puro sangue — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Spanish: purasangre — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Spanish: caballo de raza pura — thoroughbred horse (breed)
- Swedish: fullblod — thoroughbred horse (breed)
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