mares

noun

plural of mare
as in foals
an adult female horse

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Recent Examples of mares Insulin can come from pig pancreases, estrogen from the urine of pregnant mares. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 But those first few crops of kids exceeded expectations in their 2-year-old seasons, and so owners started bringing him higher-class mares. — Graham Cornwell, New York Times, 19 June 2026 Music is one way the mares, part of Nodiff-Netanel’s nonprofit called Mini Therapy Horses, comfort people, especially hospital patients, in Southern California. — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 9 May 2026 The day before the Kentucky Derby each year is known as Ladies’ Day, with several stakes races for fillies and mares, highlighted by the Kentucky Oaks. — Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026 The royal also got to see some breeding mares and foals up close, gently petting some horses and feeding one a carrot. — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026 Pearl Is a Tiny, Piano-Playing Sensation Black Pearl — Pearl, to her fans — is one of nine mares on the Mini Therapy Horses team, a nonprofit based in California’s Santa Monica Mountains. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026 The organization sends its team of nine mares to support hospital patients, first responders and schoolchildren through animal visits. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026 The Organization Behind the Curtain Black Pearl is one of nine mares making up Mini Therapy Horses’ team, a nonprofit based in California’s Santa Monica Mountains led by Victoria Nodiff Netanel. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mares
  1. stallions
  2. colts
  3. fillies
  4. equines
  5. steeds
Noun
  • Down at the bottom of the hill, Butch was sitting in the grass among a dozen or more stallions.
    — Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
  • Mares use this land as a nursery, stallions retreat there to recover from injuries caused by fighting, and old horses go deep into the marsh to lay themselves to rest.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
Definition of stallions
Noun
  • For every race that has colts contending for greatness and notoriety, there is a sister race for those wonderful three-year-old fillies.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • The Preakness features a venue change to a 115-year-old track that has never hosted the event, a field of some of the best 3-year-old colts in the country and a couple of chances to make horse racing history.
    — Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
Definition of colts
Noun
  • For every race that has colts contending for greatness and notoriety, there is a sister race for those wonderful three-year-old fillies.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • The $400,000 Hirsch has drawn nominations from 13 fillies and mares, with the 1 1/16-mile winner also earning an automatic spot in the field for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026
Definition of fillies
Noun
  • Undomesticated equines could not stop it from happening.
    — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 3 June 2026
  • While filming the 2015 miniseries Texas Rising in Mexico, Fraser noticed a horse being picked on by other equines.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of equines
Noun
  • From guiding the station steeds to standing watch while firefighters battled flames, Dalmatians became loyal partners in some of America’s earliest fire stations.
    — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 15 July 2026
  • Here, such extended sequences of cowboys steering their steeds and working their land feel rushed.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
Definition of steeds

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“Mares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mares. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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