steed

«steed» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: horse — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

horse

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A horse, especially a fine or strong one that a knight or hero rides. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say horse, and steed is used mainly in fairy tales and legends. The sentences use the same sense.

examples

• “Gallop on, gallop on, my pretty steed! (The Adventures of Pinocchio) tree →
• Scentest thou some ill?’ The steed replied: (The Red Fairy Book) tree →
• "Ha!" cried one, "it is the miser's steed. (Fifty Famous Stories Retold) tree →

primary record

steed

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 116 (Torah 0, tales 116, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 13.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• I have compared thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «steed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.