EQUESTRIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equestrian mean? 

• EQUESTRIAN (noun)
  The noun EQUESTRIAN has 1 sense:

1. a man skilled in equitation

  Familiarity information: EQUESTRIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• EQUESTRIAN (adjective)
  The adjective EQUESTRIAN has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or composed of knights

2. of or relating to or featuring horseback riding

  Familiarity information: EQUESTRIAN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUESTRIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man skilled in equitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

equestrian; horseback rider; horseman

Hypernyms ("equestrian" is a kind of...):

rider (a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equestrian"):

picador (the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low)

bronco buster; broncobuster; buster (a person who breaks horses)

fox hunter (a mounted hunter who follows the hounds in pursuit of a fox)

horsewoman (a woman horseman)

jockey (someone employed to ride horses in horse races)

postilion; postillion (someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman))

roughrider (a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle)

Derivation:

equestrian (of or relating to or featuring horseback riding)

• EQUESTRIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or composed of knights

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

knight (originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or featuring horseback riding

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

horseback riding (travel by being carried on horseback)

Derivation:

equestrian (a man skilled in equitation)

 Context examples 

The ten minutes John had given seemed very long, but at last wheels were heard; four equestrians galloped up the drive, and after them came two open carriages.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before ever he gets astride.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Thank you, that sounds pleasant, began Mr. Brooke, looking cheerful again, but before he could finish his speech, Ned, mounted on the old horse, came lumbering up to display his equestrian skill before the young ladies, and there was no more quiet that day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Miss Ingram, as before, was the only lady equestrian; and, as before, Mr. Rochester galloped at her side; the two rode a little apart from the rest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)