| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "HOUYHNHNMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1706. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HOUYHNHNMS
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: "Nay, would kind Jove my organ so dispose 2: Houyhnhnms (whinhims). A race of horses endowed with reason, who bear rule over a race of men. Gulliver, in his Travels, tells us what he "saw" among them. (Swift.) 3: I'd call thee Houhnhnm, that high-sounding 4: Name; 5: Thy children's noses all should twang the same." 6: To hymn harmonious Houyhnhnms through the 7: Nose, 8: Pope. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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