white horse

1. 1.

   a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white

   Synonymswhitecap

   Broaderwave

Questions about white horse

What does white horse mean?

white horse means "a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white".

What is another word for white horse?

Close synonyms include whitecap. 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 white horse a common word?

white 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.