horse-race

1. 1.

   compete in a horse race

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Questions about horse-race

What does horse-race mean?

horse-race means "compete in a horse race".

How many syllables are in horse-race?

horse-race has 3 syllables: hor-se--race. The stress falls on "hor".

Is horse-race a common word?

horse-race is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.