stride
/stɹaɪd/
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Northumbria/stɹɛɪd/
stride verb: to walk with long steps.
Verb
stride (third-person singular simple present strides, present participle striding, simple past strode, past participle stridden or strode or strid)
- To walk with long steps.
- Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- lope
- To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- To pass over at a step; to step over.
- a debtor that not dares to stride a limit1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- 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.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26
- To straddle.
- I mean to stride your steed.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- 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; […]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...
- Synonyms:
- bestride
Noun
stride (countable and uncountable, plural strides)
- A long step in walking.
- She set off with a purposeful stride.
- Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
- The distance covered by a long step.
- The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- This stride value is generally equal to the pixel width of the bitmap times the number of bytes per pixel, but for performance reasons it might be rounded […]2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Stride
Stride
- A surname.
stride meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
stride in Tamil
- தப்படி
stride in Urdu
- ڈگ, گام, قدم, ڈگ بھرنا, پھلانگنا, اقدام اٹھانا
stride in Bengali
- লম্বা পা ফেলে হাঁটা
stride in Malayalam
- കാല് നീട്ടിവച്ചു നടക്കുക, കാൽ കവച്ചുനിൽക്കുക, മറികടക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- stride in Kannada
- ಬೀಸುಗಾಲು, ದಾಪು, ಜಾಪು, ಜಂಗೆ
- stride in Persian
- شلنگیدن šelengidan, شلنگ šeleng
- Dzongkha
- ཧབ hab
Examples of stride in a sentence
- Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel.2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
- Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride, rather than a short step.2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 65:
Synonyms of stride
Forms of stride
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | strides |
| present participle | striding |
| past | strode |
| past participle | stridden |
| past participle | strode |
| past participle | strid |
| Noun | |
| plural | strides |
Origin of stride
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”).
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
English surname, from the noun stride.
Words formed from stride
- bestride
- outstride
- striddle
- strider
- stridingly
- overstride
- astride
- break stride
- break one's stride
- cockstride
- get into one's stride
- giant 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
Phrases with stride
Words that rhyme with stride
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- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
- allide
Questions about stride
- What does stride mean?
- Stride means to walk with long steps.
- What is stride in Tamil?
- Stride in Tamil is தப்படி. See Stride meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use stride in a sentence?
- Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel.
- What part of speech is stride?
- Stride can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce stride?
- Stride is pronounced /stɹaɪd/.
- What is the past tense of stride?
- The past tense of stride is strode.
Words near stride in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stride (page history and authors); Stride (page history and authors); stride (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stride (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stride (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stride (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stride (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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