Horace
Americannoun
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 b.c., Roman poet and satirist.
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a male given name.
noun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Carter does an original Horace, but he’s also a real actor.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The 1971 blue Fender Precision is being sold by The Specials' bass player, Horace Panter, who paid £200 for the instrument in 1981.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026
Henry Tye, the Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, arrived at this conclusion by updating a long standing model built around the "cosmological constant."
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026
Horace Tapscott built a whole hyperlocal arkestra exemplary of this freedom.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
Horace Danver and his crew had taken to gathering behind the soddie, talking in low growling whispers that seemed to work them up into a stampeding frenzy.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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