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equestrian

adjective
🔊/ɪˈkwestriən/
🔊/ɪˈkwestriən/
 [usually before noun]
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  1. connected with riding horses, especially as a sport马术的
    • equestrian events at the Olympic Games奥林匹克运动会的马术比赛项目
    • an equestrian statue/portrait (= one of a person on a horse)马术雕像/肖像
    Topics Sports: other sportsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryEquestrian is used with these nouns:
    • portrait
    • sport
    • statue
    • …
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    Word Originmid 17th cent. (as an adjective): from Latin equester ‘belonging to a horseman’ (from eques ‘horseman, knight’, from equus ‘horse’) + -ian.