# horses

Pronunciation: US say "HOR-siz" /ˈhoɹsɪz/; UK say "HAW-siz" /ˈhɔːsɪz/

## Noun

1. Plural of horse. — plural of horse
   - Simple: Plural of horse. Use this form when you mean more than one horse.
   - _The farm keeps a dozen horses in the back pasture._
   - _Wild horses roamed the open plains for centuries._
3. An informal term for horsepower, the unit that measures an engine's power output. *(slang)*
   - Simple: An informal word for horsepower: the power that an engine can make.
   - _The sports car boasts nearly five hundred horses._
   - _The mechanics bragged about how many horses the rebuilt motor could deliver._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of horse. — third-person singular simple present indicative of horse
   - Simple: Third-person singular present of horse. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _The new intern horses around whenever the supervisor steps out._
   - _Her younger brother horses around at the dinner table every night._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/horses (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).