HORSEMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horseman mean? 

• HORSEMAN (noun)
  The noun HORSEMAN has 2 senses:

1. a man skilled in equitation

2. a person who breeds and cares for horses

  Familiarity information: HORSEMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSEMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man skilled in equitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

equestrian; horseback rider; horseman

Hypernyms ("horseman" 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 "horseman"):

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:

horsemanship (skill in handling and riding horses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who breeds and cares for horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

horse fancier; horseman

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

animal fancier (a person who breeds animals)

 Context examples 

Hans did not speak so softly but the horseman heard it all, and said, Well, friend, why do you go on foot then?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Just in front of the travellers a horseman was urging his steed up the slope, driving it on with whip and spur as one who rides for a set purpose.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, off the huge crowd started, horsemen, vehicles, and pedestrians, rolling slowly over the broad face of the moorland.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To so practised and indefatigable a horseman as Mr. Rochester, it would be but a morning's ride.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Those who were unmounted jumped upon the leiter-wagon and shouted to the horsemen not to desert them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He cannot be the instigator of the three villains in horsemen's greatcoats, by whom she will hereafter be forced into a traveling-chaise and four, which will drive off with incredible speed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on horseback towards me, which had like to have cost him dear; for the beast, though very well trained, yet wholly unused to such a sight, which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on its hinder feet: but that prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till his attendants ran in, and held the bridle, while his majesty had time to dismount.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

What do you say of making an exchange? said the horseman.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Behind were the little clump of steel-clad horsemen, their lances raised, with long pensils drooping down the oaken shafts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A horseman, fantastically dressed in green and splendidly mounted, was waiting at the crossroads, and as he spurred towards us I recognised the dark, handsome face and bold black eyes of Mendoza.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)