Dictionary Entry
canter
canter is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
- 2noun
A rapid or easy passing over.
- 3intransitive verb
To move in a canter.
- 4transitive verb
To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
- 5noun
One who cants or whines; a beggar.
- 6noun
One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
- 7noun
a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
Synonyms
- 8verb
ride at a canter
"The men cantered away"
- 9verb
ride at a cantering pace
"He cantered the horse across the meadow"
- 10verb
go at a canter, of horses
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