Word.ws English Dictionary

troop horse

troop horse noun: a cavalry horse.

Noun

troop horse (plural troop horses)

  1. A cavalry horse.
    • I rode past the gate of Leamington barracks.—Do you recollect anything, Fletcher, here?—I saw the old stables, in which I had fagged over a splashed troop horse for many a weary hour.1819, Charles Edwards, “Letters (Posthumous) of Charles Edwards, Esq., No. II.”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 15, number 87 (April 1824), Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 391
    • In speaking of cavalry, he would suggest to those Gentlemen, whose only knowledge of horses was derived from the hunting field, and the usual uses they were put to in civil life, that they could make no comparison between a troop-horse and a hunter. They did not require the former to go at a great...1871 March 23, Captain Talbot, “Supply–Army Estimates”, in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Third Series: Commencing with the Accession of William IV (House of Commons), volume 205, London: Cornelius...
    Synonyms:
    charger, trooper

Synonyms of troop horse

Forms of troop horse

pluraltroop horses
alternative formtroophorse

Questions about troop horse

What does troop horse mean?
Troop horse means a cavalry horse.
What part of speech is troop horse?
Troop horse is a noun.
What is the plural of troop horse?
The plural of troop horse is troop horses.

Words near troop horse in the dictionary

  1. troons
  2. troons out
  3. troop
  4. troop carrier
  5. troop carriers
  6. troop horse
  7. troop horses
  8. troop ship
  9. troop the color
  10. troop the colour
  11. troop the colours

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: troop horse (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:

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