Word.ws English Dictionary

thoroughbred

thoroughbred adjective: bred from pure stock. Also the alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred.

Adjective

thoroughbred (comparative more thoroughbred, superlative most thoroughbred)

  1. Bred from pure stock.
  2. Well-bred and properly educated.

Noun (1)

thoroughbred (plural thoroughbreds)

  1. (broadly) Any purebred horse.
  2. A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse).
    • That athlete is a real thoroughbred.
  3. A well-bred person.

Noun (2) capitalized: Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred (plural Thoroughbreds)

  1. A horse of a breed derived from crosses between Arabian stallions and English mares, bred for racing, with its breeding history recorded in an official stud book.
    • He wanted to be at the white-hot center of equine sport, to become a jockey, to be able to feel the thrust and power of a Thoroughbred in its ultimate competition: racing flat out, surging to the head of the herd.2007, Gene McCormick, The Blue Collar Thoroughbred: An Inside Account of the Real World of Racing, McFarland, →ISBN, page 103

Also used as

thoroughbred is also the alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred.

thoroughbred meaning in Arabic and Persian

thoroughbred in Arabic

bred from pure stock
أَصِيل ʔaṣīl

thoroughbred in Persian

bred from pure stock
نجاره nejâre

Examples of thoroughbred in a sentence

  • But the captain’s eyes were on their horses—thoroughbreds, although one carried a pack.
  • I like both kinds of racing, thoroughbred and standardbred.
  • If anyone in the highborn sport known as thoroughbred horse racing has swagger these days, it is Baffert.

All 14 example sentences with thoroughbred

Forms of thoroughbred

Adjective
comparativemore thoroughbred
superlativemost thoroughbred
Noun
pluralthoroughbreds
pluralThoroughbreds
alternative formthoroughbred

Origin of thoroughbred

From thorough + bred.

Words formed from thoroughbred

Questions about thoroughbred

What does thoroughbred mean?
Thoroughbred means bred from pure stock.
What is thoroughbred in Arabic?
Thoroughbred in Arabic is أَصِيل (ʔaṣīl). See Thoroughbred meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is thoroughbred?
Thoroughbred can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near thoroughbred in the dictionary

  1. thorough-stitch
  2. thoroughbass
  3. thoroughbasses
  4. thoroughbrace
  5. thoroughbraces
  6. thoroughbred
  7. thoroughbredness
  8. thoroughbreds
  9. thoroughbreed
  10. thoroughbreeds
  11. thorougher

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thoroughbred (page history and authors); Thoroughbred (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thoroughbred.wav.

Cite this entry: “thoroughbred.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thoroughbred. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.