colt

CEFRB2

/kəʊlt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A young male horse.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A young crane (bird).

Examples

  • The colt reared and threw the tall rider.

  • The wildest colt makes the best horse.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /kəwlt/
  • /kolt/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

  2. A professional cricketer during his first season.

  3. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

More examples

In context

  • The mother fed the newborn colt.

  • The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.

  • Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.

Synonyms

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The young blank ran playfully across the green pasture behind its mother.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.