mustang

«mustang» in Mova's school dictionary: A small, tough, half-wild horse of the western USA… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a mustang, mustangs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small, tough, half-wild horse of the western USA, descended from horses brought by the Spanish. tree →

2) (with a capital M) The name of a famous American sports car, the Ford Mustang, and of a Second World War fighter plane, the P-51 Mustang. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in history and nature lessons about the American West and in cowboy stories. Mustangs are "feral" horses: their ancestors were tame, but they live wild. In everyday talk, "a Mustang" is often the car.

examples

• Herds of wild mustangs still roam parts of Nevada. tree →
• The cowboy tamed a young mustang. tree →
• Mustangs came from horses the Spanish brought to America. tree →
• My uncle drives a red Mustang. tree →
• The mustang galloped across the plains with its mane flying. tree →
• We read a story about a girl and a wild mustang. tree →
• The P-51 Mustang was a famous fighter plane. tree →

note

Countable. Lower case for the horse, capital M for the car and plane. From a Spanish word for stray animals. "Feral" means once tame, now wild.

Trees and pragmatics

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