thoroughbred

See also: Thoroughbred

English

Etymology

From thorough +‎ bred.

Adjective

thoroughbred (comparative more thoroughbred, superlative most thoroughbred)

1. Bred from pure stock.
2. Well-bred and properly educated.

Related terms

• thoroughbreed

Translations

bred from pure stock

• Bulgarian: породист (bg) (porodist), чистокръвен (bg) (čistokrǎven)
• German: vollblütig, reinrassig (de)
• Hungarian: telivér (hu)
• Japanese: サラブレッド (ja) (sarabureddo)
• Maori: horomata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fullblods

  Nynorsk: fullblods

• Persian: نجاره (nejâre)
• Polish: czystej krwi, pełnokrwisty, rasowy (pl)
• Portuguese: puro sangue
• Russian: чистокро́вный (ru) (čistokróvnyj), чистопоро́дный (ru) (čistoporódnyj)
• Spanish: purasangre
• Swedish: renrasig (sv)

Noun

thoroughbred (plural thoroughbreds)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred (“horse bred for racing”)
2. (loosely) Any purebred horse.
3. A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse).

   That athlete is a real thoroughbred.

4. A well-bred person.

Translations

thoroughbred horse (breed)

• Catalan: pura sang m
• French: pur-sang (fr) m
• German: Englisches Vollblut n, Vollblut n
• Irish: capall ardfhola m
• Italian: purosangue inglese m, purosangue (it) m or f by sense
• Japanese: サラブレッド (ja) (sarabureddo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fullblodshest m

  Nynorsk: fullblodshest m

• Portuguese: puro-sangue inglês m, puro sangue
• Spanish: purasangre m
• Swedish: fullblod (sv) n

Further reading

• thoroughbred on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “thoroughbred”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “thoroughbred”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.