post-horse

1. 1.

   a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers

   Synonymspost horseposter

   Broaderhorse

Questions about post-horse

What does post-horse mean?

post-horse means "a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers".

How many syllables are in post-horse?

post-horse has 2 syllables: pos-t-horse. The stress falls on "pos".

What is another word for post-horse?

Close synonyms include post horse, poster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is post-horse a common word?

post-horse 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.