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colthood

/ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/

colthood noun: the state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.

Noun

colthood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.
    • Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood.1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
    • She had a vague notion that all horses nowadays were trained from their colthood to buck--whatever that was.1917, B. M. Bower, The Lookout Man

colthood meaning in Bengali

colthood in Bengali

কোল্ট হওয়ার অবস্থা, একটি ঘোড়ার যৌবন

Origin of colthood

From colt + -hood.

Questions about colthood

What does colthood mean?
Colthood means the state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.
What is colthood in Bengali?
Colthood in Bengali is কোল্ট হওয়ার অবস্থা, একটি ঘোড়ার যৌবন. See Colthood meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is colthood?
Colthood is a noun.
How do you pronounce colthood?
Colthood is pronounced /ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/.

Words near colthood in the dictionary

  1. colterol
  2. colters
  3. Coltfield
  4. Coltharp
  5. Coltharps
  6. colthood
  7. Colthrop
  8. colting
  9. coltish
  10. Coltishall
  11. coltishly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colthood (page history and authors); colthood (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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