paddock area
- noun
- /ˈpædək ˈɛəriə/
:
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- Spectators watched the horses as they were taken from the barns to the paddock area for the pre-race ceremony.
Examples
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The horses were kept in a safe paddock area while waiting for their races to start.
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Before the competition, the trainers gathered in the paddock area to discuss their strategies.
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They moved through the paddock area where exercise boys were being given a leg up onto their mounts.
Fiction book (1995) -
From the paddock area, they walked toward the track, single file, some led by grooms, some unaccompanied.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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An enclosed area at a racetrack where horses are saddled and walked before a race
An enclosed area where farmers keep animals for a short time before moving them
How Public
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'paddock' already denotes an enclosed place for horses and 'area' denotes a region, so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the enclosed part used for horses at a race. This simple noun + noun combination follows ordinary English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, making it immediately comprehensible to learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Paddock area The noun paddock area comes from the small fenced space called a paddock where horses wait and are walked before a race while trainers prepare them. That's why it means 'an enclosed area at a race event, especially for housing horses'.