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Definition: ahorseback

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Traveling on horseback; "a file of men ahorseback passed by".[Wordnet]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb ahorsebackly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb 1. On the back of a horse; "policeman patrolled the streets ahorseback".[Wordnet].
Adverb Form
(ahorsebackly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective ahorseback.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Date "Ahorseback" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Synonyms: ahorseback
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Other

ahorse, horseback.

Expression

on horseback.
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Computed Synonyms: ahorseback

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   3.0695   ahorseback     ahorse     horseback, on horseback, astride, astraddle, Jee Jee   
 2   1.9098   ahorseback     horseback     smack, horse, Helen, Henry, Jones   
 3   1.9096   ahorseback     on horseback     horseback, ahorse, mounted, astride, astraddle   
 4   1.0191   ahorseback     astraddle     astride, horseback, on horseback, straddle, ahorse   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: ahorseback

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Chinese Traditional 騎著馬的 (ahorse, ahorseback), 在馬上 (ahorse, ahorseback). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, ahorseback. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian верхом (astride, astraddle, ahorse, horseback, ahorseback). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, ahorseback. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) verkhom (astride, astraddle, ahorse, horseback, ahorseback). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, ahorseback. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki верхом (astride, astraddle, ahorse, horseback, ahorseback). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, ahorseback. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) verkhom (astride, astraddle, ahorse, horseback, ahorseback). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, ahorseback. (volunteer & more translations)
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Adjacent words:

Ahn     Aholming     Ahrens
Ahnapee     Ahom     Ahrensa
Ahnert     Ahonen     Ahrensburg
Ahnert-Rohlfs     A-horizon     Ahrensburgian
Ahnlund     Ahorse     Ahriman
Aho     Ahorseback     Ahrle
Ahobilam     Ahorsebackly     Ahronoth
Aho-Corasick     Ahorsely     Ahrue
Ahola     Ahoskie     AHS
Ahold     AHPCRC     Ahsan
Aholibah     Ahras     Ahsanuddin


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