puissance
noun /ˈpwiːsɒ̃s/
/ˈpwɪsəns/
- Puissance[singular] a competition in showjumping to test a horse’s ability to jump high fences
Topics Sports: other sportsc2(马的)越障能力测试赛 - [uncountable] (literary) great power or influence
大权;权势;影响力
词源late Middle English (in sense (2)): from Old French, ‘power’, from puissant ‘having power’, from Latin posse ‘be able’. Sense 1 dates from the 1950s.