wild horse
18
2.7
- noun
- /waɪld hɔrs/
:
caballo salvaje
- In the time when the wild horses ran free.
- wild horses and burros
- wild horses roam
- herd of wild horses
Examples
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And now the government is rounding up our wild horses, and they plan to shoot them, too, before the first snows.
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So what happened to the wild horses Davis purchased from the BLM?
Blog text (15) -
All those things take wild horses off the range to make way for progress.
Blog text (15) -
We raise some cows and catch some wild horses to make a living.
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There are now more wild horses living in captivity than in the wild.
Blog text (15) -
The marsh became meadow; wild horses ran into the thunder of their song.
Fiction book (1994) -
I pay taxes for federal lands -- for federally protected wild horses and burros to live on.
Blog text (15) -
Typical animals hunted by Lucy would have been wild horses, woolly mammoths, reindeer, and rhinos.
Academic text (1999) -
On a trip through the desert, we spotted a group of wild horses running majestically across the plains.
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The documentary showcased the life of wild horses and their struggle to survive in harsh conditions.
Synonyms
77
5.8
A small wild horse that roams the western plains of North America
11
8.0
A wild or partly tamed horse used in rodeos
How Tame
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a horse that lives in the wild / not domesticated' is directly and compositionally derived from 'wild' (not tamed) + 'horse' (the animal). This straightforward adjective+noun combination is cross-linguistically common and should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Wild horse comes from the simple image of a horse that is wild, roaming open land in herds and not kept by people. So, wild horse means 'a horse that lives free and is not tamed'.