warhorse
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.war·horse
noun \-ˌhȯrs\Definition of WARHORSE
1
: a horse used in war : charger
2
: a person with long experience in a field; especially : a veteran soldier or public person (as a politician)
3
: something (as a work of art or musical composition) that has become overly familiar or hackneyed due to much repetition in the standard repertoire
See Examples of WARHORSE
- the Democratic warhorse in the Senate
- a general who describes himself as an old warhorse
- a new production of an old warhorse
First Known Use of WARHORSE
15th century
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Rhymes with WARHORSE
clotheshorse, concourse, crash course, dark horse, dawn horse, dead horse, deforce, discourse, divorce, dray horse, endorse, enforce, extrorse, golf course, gut course, high horse, introrse, iron horse, midcourse, of course, Old Norse, one-horse, packhorse, perforce, post-horse, racecourse, racehorse, recourse, redhorse, remorse, resource, retrorse, sawhorse, sea horse, stringcourse, trial horse, unhorse, wheelhorse, Whitehorse, workhorse
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