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rider

/ˈɹɑɪ̯.dəː/UK/ˈɹaɪ̯.dəː/

rider noun: a knight, or other mounted warrior.

Noun

rider (plural riders)

  1. (archaic, historical) A knight, or other mounted warrior.
  2. An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
    • His mouldy money! half a dozen riders.c. 1609–1622?, John Fletcher, “The Womans Prize: Or, The Tamer Tamed”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please...
  3. (generally) Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.
    • The eyes of Holstein de Dorenstorff stared, wildly, upon a figure, which at this instant appeared, mounted on a beautiful beast,[…]; its rider was enveloped in a kind of large, concealing coat, which well answered the intent of its purport: […]1807, [Miss Guion], chapter II, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC...
    • After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering. […] When customers buy a Harley, they’re instantly a member of a family of zealous fans — guys with tattoos and unruly hair as well as lawyers and doctors. (The...2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020
  4. (Philippines) A motorcycle enthusiast; a motorcycle club member.
  5. (archaic, historical) A mounted robber; a bandit, especially in the Scottish borders.
    • In Ewsdale eight and forty notorious riders are hung on growing trees, the most famous of which was John Armstrong1655, William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of Scotland […]
  6. (obsolete) Someone who breaks in or manages a horse; a riding master.
    • They are taught their mannage, and to that end Riders deerely hir'd.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  7. (archaic, historical) An agent who goes out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller or travelling salesman.
    • I set out with a Paisley manufacturer and a London rider, the latter of whom I envied for his smartness and self-complacency.1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journal 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 70
  8. (US) Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport.
    • On the London Underground, Piccadilly Circus station is nearly vacant on a weekday morning, while the Delhi Metro is ferrying fewer than half of the riders it used to.2021 March 25, Somini Sengupta, Geneva Abdul, Manuela Andreoni, Veronica Penney, “Riders Are Abandoning Buses and Trains. That's a Problem for Climate Change.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  9. A skateboarder
    • In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN
  10. A snowboarder
  11. A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature.
  12. An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.
    • I had sixteen nudity riders to sign and having Jean, our intimacy coordinator, Jean Franzblau, was absolutely pivotal to being able to do this.2023 July 10, 1:07:39 from the start, in The Making of IMMORTALITY
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  1. An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification.
    • It was generally added, as a rider to this, that although Marxism was scientifically true it was bound to be resisted by the possessing classes, as it prophesied their downfall.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
    • But they would hush momentarily for the farce, specially if billed with the grand rider: 'licensed by the Lord Chamberlain expressly for this theatre'.2015, Ed Glinert, East End Chronicles, Penguin UK, →ISBN
  2. A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics.
    • This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer.1886, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, The Wind of Destiny
  3. An add-on to an insurance policy.
  4. An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
    • During the four weeks of research, a considerable part of the ships structure was discovered underneath the ballast stones: keel, floor timbers, strakes, keelson together with mast step and its sisters and rider2016, Lucy Blue, Frederick M. Hocker, Anton Englert, Connected by the Sea
  5. (archaic) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
  6. (in plural) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
  7. A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.
  8. The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
  9. A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction as long as no other piece is in the way.
    • It simply blocks the cell to entry by any piece, though riders may pass over it (otherwise checkmates become difficult, since the coin could be used to block any distant check by a rider). […] Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a...2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, pages 9, 10

Proper noun capitalized: Rider

Rider

  1. A surname originating as an occupation. More often spelled Ryder.

rider meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

rider in Hindi

one who rides — see also cyclist, driver
सवार savār

rider in Tamil

எறி, அறிகணக்கு, குதிரைச்சவாரியாளர், குதிரையேரி, ஊர்வான், நகரெடை

rider in Marathi

rider, horseman
स्वार svār

rider in Urdu

one who rides — see also cyclist, driver
سَوار savār, گُھڑ سَوار ghuṛ savār
More languagesFewer languages
rider in Bengali
চড়নদার, সত্তয়ার, অশ্বচালক
rider in Telugu
రైడర్, సవారి చేసేవాడు
rider in Malayalam
റൈഡർ, സവാരിക്കാരൻ, സവാരി ചെയ്യുന്നയാൾ
rider in Kannada
ಸವಾರ, ಸವಾರಿ ಮಾಡುವವ, ಉಪಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ, ಅನುಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ
rider in Punjabi
سوار savār, ਸਵਾਰ savār
rider in Gujarati
સવાર savār
rider in Odia
ରାଉତ rāuta
rider in Sanskrit
यावन् yāvan
rider in Nepali
सवार, राइडर
rider in Arabic
رَاكِب rākib, رَاكِبَة rākiba
rider in Malay
penunggang
rider in Indonesian
penunggang
rider in Thai
ผู้ขี่ pûu-kìi
rider in Vietnamese
người cưỡi ngựa, kị sĩ, kị mã

Examples of rider in a sentence

  • A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
  • If the horse refuses an obstacle, the rider will receive four faults.
  • The rider washed out around that last turn and hit a tree.

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Synonyms of rider

Forms of rider

pluralriders

Plural of rider: riders

Origin of rider

From Middle English ryder, ridere, from Late Old English rīdere (“rider, knight”). Compare Dutch rijder, German Reiter. By surface analysis, ride + -er.

* As an English surname, from the noun rider. * Also as an English surname, from Old English rēodan (“to clear out”), from Proto-West Germanic *reudan. Compare Reeder. * Also as an English surname, from dialectal rithe (“small stream”). * As an Irish surname, calque from Irish ó marcaigh (“descendant of the (horse)rider”). This is also found directly in Markey. * As a German surname, Americanized from Reiter.

Words formed from rider

Phrases with rider

Words that rhyme with rider

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Questions about rider

What does rider mean?
Rider means a knight, or other mounted warrior.
What is rider in Hindi?
Rider in Hindi is सवार (savār). See Rider meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is rider?
Rider can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce rider?
Rider is pronounced /ˈɹaɪ̯.dəː/ (UK).
What is the plural of rider?
The plural of rider is riders.

Words near rider in the dictionary

  1. Ridenours
  2. Ridens
  3. rident
  4. rideout
  5. rideouts
  6. rider
  7. rider's bone
  8. ridered
  9. rideress
  10. riderless
  11. riders

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rider (page history and authors); Rider (page history and authors); rider (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); स्वार (Marathi) (page history and authors); rider (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rider (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rider (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rider (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سوار (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સવાર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ରାଉତ (Odia) (page history and authors); rider (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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