three-year-old horse

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   a racehorse that is three years old

   Synonymsthree year old

   Broaderracehorse

Questions about three-year-old horse

What does three-year-old horse mean?

three-year-old horse means "a racehorse that is three years old".

What is another word for three-year-old horse?

Close synonyms include three year old. 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 three-year-old horse a common word?

three-year-old 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.