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# steed

«steed» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **horse** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

horse

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A horse, especially a fine or strong one that a knight or hero rides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/steed/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say horse, and steed is used mainly in fairy tales and legends. The sentences use the same sense.

### examples

- “Gallop on, gallop on, my pretty steed! (The Adventures of Pinocchio) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/steed/#x1)
- Scentest thou some ill?’ The steed replied: (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/steed/#x2)
- "Ha!" cried one, "it is the miser's steed. (Fifty Famous Stories Retold) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/steed/#x3)

### primary record

steed

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 116 (Torah 0, tales 116, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 13.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [I have compared thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «steed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/steed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.