English Explanatory Dictionary

stride

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To walk with long steps.
  2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  3. To pass over at a step; to step over.
  4. To straddle.
noun
  1. A long step in walking.
  2. The distance covered by a long step.
  3. The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
  4. 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.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

strīd /stɹaɪd/ en-us-stride.ogg

Word forms

stride strides striding strode stridden strid

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”).

Synonyms

lope bestride

Derived words

bestride outstride striddle strider stridingly overstride astride break stride break one's stride cockstride get into one's stride hit one's stride in stride interstride make strides midstride no-stride stride bass strided stride piano strides take something in stride take something in one's stride

Translations

Asturian: galmu Asturian: galmiada Bulgarian: разкрач Catalan: gambada Finnish: harppaus French: enjambée Galician: alancada Irish: truslóg Italian: falcata Italian: lungo passo Māori: whāronatanga Persian: شلنگ Plautdietsch: Schrett Polish: krok Spanish: zancada Spanish: paso largo Spanish: zancajada Spanish: tranco Spanish: trancada Welsh: brasgam
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