Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. With a leg on each side: riding astride.
- adv. With the legs wide apart.
- prep. On or over and with a leg on each side of.
- prep. Situated on both sides of.
- prep. Lying across or over; spanning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- With one leg on each side of some object; with the legs wide apart.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with the legs stretched far apart
- adv. with one leg on each side
Etymologies
- From a- + stride. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He gave me quite a lecture on the dangers of the side-saddle, and said very earnestly that women ought to ride "astride" (at that time this was a thing _incompris_ in England).”
“His base sat astride the York River, including Yorktown on the south bank and Gloucester Point on the north.”
“Bring back the virtuous knight in his armor, astride a noble steed.”
“And it is delivered to your door by Don Quixote astride a unicorn.”
“The demon-king Rawana bares his fangs and pops his eyes astride his horrific mount Wilmana.”
The Wall Street Journal: Island Art, and All That Comes With It
“By June of the next year, astride the horse of sovereignty, he had become the favorite to win the Ukrainian presidency.”
“Bianca Jagger famously wore his shoes for her entrance into Studio 54, sitting astride a white charger; the Princess of Wales was a fan; and the "Sex and the City" character Carrie Bradshaw had such a predilection for his heels that "Manolos" became a household name.”
“Someone let loose with a blood curdling rebel yell, and a woman tore off her shirt, and climbed astride her boyfriend's shoulders, waving her arms wildly over her head.”
“Find me reading shadows rocking astride empty words and neverhours.”
“There is a touch astride the belly that feeds unsated flesh.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘astride’.
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• The bonhomous lynchpin - And other ...
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Words as I learn them.
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stpeter's Words
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tendril, perfunctorily, slurry, emplacement, foray, dray, reverie, rill, chokecherry, ninebark, ess, meep and 30 more...
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Poetrie: The New Colossus
by Emma Lazarus, 1883.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mi...i lift my lamp be..., tempest-tost, homeless, your teeming shore, wretched refuse, yearning to breat..., your huddled masses, give me your tired, silent, storied pomp, ancient lands, twin cities and 19 more...
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I'm scared one day I'll say it, "I do...
heartbeats, tessellate, reinvent, collarbones, entangle, frightened, wrists, furniture, variations, unnoticed, astride, motion and 80 more...
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