1
: a rider or driver of horses
especially
: one whose skill is exceptional
2
: a person skilled in caring for or managing horses
3
: a person who breeds or raises horses
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Bey, a lifelong horseman and Black cowboy, will compete in the roping competition.
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Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
Between real and fiction, between the sacred and the profane, Bardi follows an itinerant brotherhood of horsemen across central Morocco.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
The regulars would head to Concord, but not before a horseman, Dr. Samuel Prescott, rode toward the North Bridge, warning communities along the way that the British were coming.
—Hillel Italie and Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, the second horseman is off in Panama whipping up yet more instability.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
Between real and fiction, between the sacred and the profane, Bardi follows an itinerant brotherhood of horsemen across central Morocco.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
The regulars would head to Concord, but not before a horseman, Dr. Samuel Prescott, rode toward the North Bridge, warning communities along the way that the British were coming.
—Hillel Italie and Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, the second horseman is off in Panama whipping up yet more instability.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for horseman
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“Horseman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horseman. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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