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horse sense

horse sense noun: common sense, especially with a connotation of folk wisdom that trumps formal education.

Noun

horse sense (uncountable)

  1. Common sense, especially with a connotation of folk wisdom that trumps formal education.
    Synonyms:
    gumption

horse sense meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

horse sense in Tamil

பட்டறிவு, செயல்முறையுணர்வு

horse sense in Malayalam

common, {common:1}
വിവേകം, തിരിച്ചറിവ്, സാമാന്യബുദ്ധി സാമാന്യജ്ഞാനം, സാമാന്യ ബോധം, സാമാന്യ പ്രജ്ഞ

Synonyms of horse sense

Questions about horse sense

What does horse sense mean?
Horse sense means common sense, especially with a connotation of folk wisdom that trumps formal education.
What is horse sense in Tamil?
Horse sense in Tamil is பட்டறிவு, செயல்முறையுணர்வு. See Horse sense meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is horse sense?
Horse sense is a noun.

Words near horse sense in the dictionary

  1. horse riding
  2. horse salt
  3. horse salts
  4. horse scoop
  5. horse scoops
  6. horse sense
  7. horse shoe
  8. horse shoes
  9. horse show
  10. horse shows
  11. horse sickness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse sense (page history and authors); horse sense (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horse sense (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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