stride

Meaning

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; to bestride.

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.

Synonyms

step

pace

walk

🚶

straddle

tread

footstep

stroll

march

move

stalk

stride along

walk fast

bestride

press

progress

quantum jump

remove

step on

stretch

striding

tramp

big step

long step

mark time

move rapidly

take a step

tread upon

development

spread the legs

action

move a step

advance

advancement

breakthrough

dance

💃

fast

gait

gallop

gradation

hurry

jump

leap

lope

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹaɪd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: striden

Inherited from Old English: strīdan

Cognate with Low German: striden

Cognate with Dutch: strijden

Cognate with German: streiten

Inherited from Middle English: stride

Inherited from Old English: stride

In summary

From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“to get by force, pillage, rob; 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”).