Definition of Preakness

1. Noun. An annual race for three-year-old horses; held at Pimlico in Baltimore, Maryland.

Generic synonyms: Thoroughbred Race

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preakness

Prakrit
Prakritic
Prakrits
Prangli
Prato
Praunus
Pravachol
Praxiteles
Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children
Pre-Cana
Pre-Greek
Pre-Raphaelite
Pre-Raphaelites
Preacher
Preakness (current term)
Precambrian
Precambrian aeon
Precambrian eon
Precambrian period
Preface
Prekmurian
Prelone
Prem
Premier League
Premiership
Premium Bond
Premonstrant
Premonstrants
Premonstratensian

Literary usage of Preakness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1879)
"WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS AT Preakness During the first three weeks of July, 1780, Washington had his headquarters at Preakness, New Jersey, lodging at the ..."

2. Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette (1837)
"Camp at Preakness, July 4th, 1780. You know, my dear general, that I am very anxious to see the army well clothed for this campaign ; the importance of such ..."

3. Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette (1837)
"Camp at Preakness, July 4th, 1780. You know, my dear general, that I am very anxious to see the army well clothed for this campaign ; the importance of such ..."

4. The History of New Jersey: From Its Discovery by Europeans, to the Adoption by Thomas Francis Gordon (1834)
"On the NW the waving tops of the Preakness ridge are observed, extending for several miles, indented by ponds of considerable magnitude and depth. ..."

5. Lake Passaic: An Extinct Glacial Lake by Henry Barnard Kümmel (1895)
"The Opper Preakness stage.—At a number of places, more or less well-defined terraces are present at elevations varying from sixty- five to seventy-five feet ..."

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