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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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
When the plot went public, it was denounced outside Dixie — Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune called it the “Manifesto of the Brigands”—and the idea was shelved as America slid toward civil war.
From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026
Mr. Stern is not the only architect whose achievement was as much as impresario as it was as artist; one thinks of Daniel Burnham and Horace Trumbauer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
There, Horace Hunley and his partners intended to operate the submarine as a privateer, helping the Confederacy break the blockade the North had placed on Southern ports.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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