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HORSEMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who breeds and cares for horses
Synonyms:
horse fancier; horseman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("horseman" is a kind of...):
animal fancier (a person who breeds animals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A man skilled in equitation
Synonyms:
equestrian; horseback rider; horseman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("horseman" is a kind of...):
rider (a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horseman"):
picador (the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low)
bronco buster; broncobuster; buster (a person who breaks horses)
fox hunter (a mounted hunter who follows the hounds in pursuit of a fox)
horsewoman (a woman horseman)
jockey (someone employed to ride horses in horse races)
postilion; postillion (someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman))
roughrider (a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle)
Derivation:
horsemanship (skill in handling and riding horses)
Context examples:
There seem to be endless streams running down the mountains into this river, but as none of them are very large—at present, at all events, though they are terrible doubtless in winter and when the snow melts—the horsemen may not have met much obstruction.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I set out; I walked fast, but not far: ere I had measured a quarter of a mile, I heard the tramp of hoofs; a horseman came on, full gallop; a dog ran by his side.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Everybody acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulties of crossing Cheap Street at this point; it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day never passes in which parties of ladies, however important their business, whether in quest of pastry, millinery, or even (as in the present case) of young men, are not detained on one side or other by carriages, horsemen, or carts.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The little tailor went forth, and the hundred horsemen followed him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Then, amid a long-drawn breath from the spectators, the glove fell from the marshal's hand, and the two steel-clad horsemen met like a thunderclap in front of the royal stand.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Across the moor there had ridden a black-coated gentleman, with buff-topped hunting-boots and a couple of grooms behind him, the little knot of horsemen showing up clearly upon the curving swells and then dipping down into the alternate hollows.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then came a sudden cry:—"Look! Look! Look! See, two horsemen follow fast, coming up from the south. It must be Quincey and John. Take the glass. Look before the snow blots it all out!"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He was nowhere to be met with; every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable; nor among the walkers, the horsemen, or the curricle-drivers of the morning.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But are you not wounded? asked the horsemen.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
On and on they pushed past the endless lines of tents, amid the dense swarms of horsemen and of footmen, until the huge royal pavilion stretched in front of them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
