name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A particularly large and powerful breed of rare draft horse.
2. 2
   heavy feathered-legged breed of draft horse originally from Scotland wordnet
3. 3
   A heavier than usual athlete (Over 200 lbs for men, over 145 lbs for women) US
4. 4
   A very morbidly obese person. derogatory, slang

Proper Noun

1. 1
   The valley of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS91).
2. 2
   A former district of Strathclyde, Scotland, renamed from Lanark in 1980, and abolished in 1996 along with the region.
3. 3
   A community in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
4. 4
   A town in Harry Gwala District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
5. 5
   A rural locality in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia.

Synonyms

All synonyms

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Etymology

From Clyde + -s- + dale. The horses were so named because they were bred in the valley of the Clyde in Scotland.

Related phrases

Clydesdale terrierclydesdale terrier

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.