trot
/tɹɑt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A brisk journey or progression.
noun
A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
noun
A toddler.
noun
A moderately rapid dance.
Example Sentences
- "Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village."
- "We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach."
- "In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4."
- "The mare started at a walk before breaking into a trot."
- "Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop."
- "The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot.[…]The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot."
Etymology
From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹɑt/
- British English: /tɹɒt/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.