Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stride

/stɹaɪd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables: stride
IPA: /stɹaɪd/

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To walk with long steps.

Intransitive verb

verb

To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.

verb

To pass over at a step; to step over.

verb

noun

A long step in walking.

Countable

noun

The distance covered by a long step.

Countable

noun

The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.

Countable

noun

A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field."
"a debtor that not dares to stride a limit"
"For SAC66 is better known as Batty Moss (or Ribblehead) Viaduct - the magnificent, Grade 2-listed, 24-arch structure that strides over the pockmarked ground between Ribblehead station and Blea Moor signal box."
"I mean to stride your steed."
"The air and manner of the horseman bespoke him of superior order;[…]. The rich housings of the beast he strode, proclaimed its owner of illustrious race; […]"
"She set off with a purposeful stride."

Etymology

From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: striden, strīdan, *strīdan, *strīdaną, stride

Usage

Inflected Forms

strides (present, singular) striding (participle, present) strode (past) stridden (participle, past) strode (participle, past) strid (participle, past) strides (plural)

Derived Forms

bestride outstride overstride striddle strider stridingly astride cockstride interstride midstride strided strides

Phrases

break stride break one's stride get into one's stride giant stride hit one's stride in stride make strides no-stride

Synonyms

lope bestride pace tread footstep step

Rhymes With

side outside died inside side-by-side tried provide wide ride decide guide applied

Questions

How do you pronounce stride?: The recorded pronunciation is /stɹaɪd/.
What does stride mean?: To walk with long steps.
Where does stride come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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