See road horse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"rode hors",
"rode hors#Middle_English"
],
[
"rodehors",
"rodehors#Middle_English"
],
[
"rādhors",
"radhors#Old_English"
],
[
"road",
"road#English"
],
[
"horse",
"horse#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "rode hors"
},
"expansion": "Middle English rode hors",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "rādhors",
"t": "saddle-horse"
},
"expansion": "Old English rādhors (“saddle-horse”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "road",
"3": "horse"
},
"expansion": "road + horse",
"name": "com"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English rode hors, rodehors, from Old English rādhors (“saddle-horse”), equivalent to road + horse.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "road horses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "road-horse",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "road horse (plural road horses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "87 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A horse suitable for use on roadways; roadster."
],
"id": "en-road_horse-en-noun-9~HMjJPj",
"links": [
[
"horse",
"horse"
],
[
"roadway",
"roadway"
],
[
"roadster",
"roadster"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"A horse for riding; saddle-horse."
],
"id": "en-road_horse-en-noun-FBbwmedF",
"links": [
[
"horse",
"horse"
],
[
"riding",
"riding"
],
[
"saddle-horse",
"saddle horse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A horse for riding; saddle-horse."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "road horse"
}
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"rode hors",
"rode hors#Middle_English"
],
[
"rodehors",
"rodehors#Middle_English"
],
[
"rādhors",
"radhors#Old_English"
],
[
"road",
"road#English"
],
[
"horse",
"horse#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "rode hors"
},
"expansion": "Middle English rode hors",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "rādhors",
"t": "saddle-horse"
},
"expansion": "Old English rādhors (“saddle-horse”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "road",
"3": "horse"
},
"expansion": "road + horse",
"name": "com"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English rode hors, rodehors, from Old English rādhors (“saddle-horse”), equivalent to road + horse.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "road horses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "road-horse",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "road horse (plural road horses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A horse suitable for use on roadways; roadster."
],
"links": [
[
"horse",
"horse"
],
[
"roadway",
"roadway"
],
[
"roadster",
"roadster"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A horse for riding; saddle-horse."
],
"links": [
[
"horse",
"horse"
],
[
"riding",
"riding"
],
[
"saddle-horse",
"saddle horse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A horse for riding; saddle-horse."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "road horse"
}
Download raw JSONL data for road horse meaning in English (1.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.