equestrian
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6.1
- adjective
- /ɪˈkwɛstriən/
:
ecuestre
- After the Olympics, being a member of the U.S. equestrian team was most riders' greatest ambition, so what had prevented her?
- equestrian statue
- equestrian figure
- equestrian monument
Examples
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Her room is decorated in pastels with equestrian items all around.
Fiction book (1997) -
Myself and Geraldine are planning to make this the largest and finest equestrian centre in all of Ireland.
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What happened to those equestrian classes you took?
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There is something too equestrian about the way she moves through the kitchen.
Fiction book (1998) -
We have great riders representing many types of equestrian disciplines from across the world.
Blog text (11) -
At Eventing Nation, we honor the entire equestrian community and especially the horses.
Blog text (2) -
Riding escaramuza provides an opportunity for the young women of the community to demonstrate their equestrian abilities.
Academic text (1994) -
Campbell's involvement with the equestrian sport came from a sheer love of horses.
Blog text (30) -
Monica learned equestrian dressage, and I learned yoga from Spanish-speaking teachers.
Academic text (2002) -
The equestrian students practiced their riding skills at the school every Saturday.
Compounds
A sport where people ride horses and show riding skill, for example jumping or dressage
How Horsey
Surface Forms
Morphology
equestrian = equestr + ian
Formed from a Latin combining stem equestr- plus the adjectival suffix -ian; the root is not a productive English word, so the relation is not transparent to typical learners.
Etymology
Equestrian comes from the Latin eques 'horseman' and equus 'horse'. So equestrian means 'connected with horse riding' or things related to riders and horses, and you can remember it from the word equine, which also means 'horse'.