wooden horse

1. 1.

   a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War

   SynonymsTrojan Horse

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Questions about wooden horse

What does wooden horse mean?

wooden horse means "a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War".

What is another word for wooden horse?

Close synonyms include Trojan Horse. 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 wooden horse a common word?

wooden 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.