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saddle

/ˈsæd(ə)l/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables
sad-dle
IPA
/ˈsæd(ə)l/
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

noun

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

noun

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

noun

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

noun

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

noun

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

noun

A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.

noun

Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English sadel, from Old English sadol, from Proto-West Germanic *sadul, from Proto-Germanic *sadulaz (“saddle”). Further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sod-dʰlo-, from *sed- (“to sit”) + *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting instruments or tools)), though the Oxford English Dictionary says this “presents formal difficulties”. Cognates * Danish sadel * Dutch zadel * German Sattel * Icelandic söðull * Low German Sadel * Russian седло́ (sedló) * Saterland Frisian Soadel * Scots sadil * Swedish sadel * West Frisian seal

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *sed-, sadel, sadol, *sadul, *sadulaz, *sod-dʰlo-

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈsæd(ə)l/
  • British English: /ˈsædl̩/

Usage

Inflected Forms

saddles (plural) saddles (present, singular) saddling (participle, present) saddled (participle, past) saddled (past) no-table-tags (table tags) glossary (inflection template) saddled (first person, past) saddlest (archaic, present) saddled (past, second person) saddledst (archaic, past) saddleth (archaic, present)

Derived Forms

asaddle offsaddle packsaddle resaddle saddie saddleback saddlebag saddlebill saddlebow saddlebum saddlecloth saddleflap

Phrases

back in the saddle boots and saddles burr in one's saddle burr under one's saddle dressage saddle elfin saddle English saddle in the saddle

Synonyms

harness saddle saddle brown saddle reef saddle point saddle oxford or saddle shoe bicycle seat saddleback charge burden

Rhymes With

paddle straddle fadel caddell addle radel astraddle madl kadel stadel doggy paddle waddle

Questions

How do you pronounce saddle?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsæd(ə)l/.
What does saddle mean?
A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
Where does saddle come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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