three-day event
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6.5
- noun
- Jargon
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evento de tres días
- She is preparing for the three-day event next month.
- three-day event dressage
- three-day event team
Examples
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Each competitor must showcase their skills in all three disciplines during the three-day event.
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Many spectators attended the three-day event to watch the exciting cross-country phase.
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She competed in her first three-day event last summer and placed third overall.
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The three-day event tests both the horse's endurance and the rider's skill in multiple disciplines.
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The three-day event attracted competitors from all over the country.
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The annual three-day event featured thrilling competitions in dressage, cross-country, and stadium jumping.
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The three-day event held at the park attracted crowds eager to watch the equestrian competitions unfold.
Synonyms
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8.1
A sport where a rider and horse do dressage, cross-country, and show jumping
Surface Forms
Morphology
three-day + event
The meaning 'an event that lasts for three consecutive days' is directly and compositionally built from the numeric modifier 'three' + temporal unit 'day' modifying 'event' (or written as the compound 'three-day'), so a learner who knows those constituents can infer the duration meaning. This numeral + time-unit modifier is a regular, cross-linguistic and productive pattern in English, making the expression immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
The noun three-day event for the equestrian sport comes from old army tests for cavalry horses. Soldiers put horses and riders through three trials—dressage, cross-country, and jumping—over three days, so the name stuck and it now means 'an equestrian competition held over three days'.