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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To walk with long steps, especially in a hasty or vigorous way.
  2. v. To take a single long step, as in passing over an obstruction.
  3. v. To stand or sit astride; straddle.
  4. v. To walk with long steps on, along, or over: striding the stage.
  5. v. To step over or across: stride a brook.
  6. v. To be astride of; straddle.
  7. n. The act of striding.
  8. n. A single long step.
  9. n. The distance traveled in such a step.
  10. n. A single coordinated movement of the four legs of a horse or other animal, completed when the legs return to their initial relative position.
  11. n. The distance traveled in such a movement.
  12. n. A step of progress; an advance. Often used in the plural: making great strides in their studies.
  13. idiom. hit (one's) stride To achieve a steady, effective pace.
  14. idiom. hit (one's) stride To attain a maximum level of competence.
  15. idiom. take in stride To cope with calmly, without interrupting one's normal routine: taking their newfound wealth in stride.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To walk with long steps; step.
  2. To stand with the feet far apart; straddle.
  3. To pass over at a step: as, to stride a ditch.
  4. To sit astride on; bestride; straddle; ride upon.
  5. n. A step, especially one that is long, measured, or pompous; a wide stretch of the legs in walking.
  6. n. The space measured or the ground covered by a long step, or between putting down one foot and raising the other.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A long step.
  2. n. computing The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
  3. v. intransitive To walk with long steps.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.
  2. v. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  3. v. To pass over at a step; to step over.
  4. v. To straddle; to bestride.
  5. n. The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. significant progress (especially in the phrase
  2. v. cover or traverse by taking long steps
  3. v. walk with long steps
  4. n. the distance covered by a step
  5. n. a step in walking or running

Etymologies

  1. From Old English stridan ("to stride"), from Proto-Germanic *strīdanan. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I suppose he means by this two things: that these great movements of our modern life are not any evidence of a permanent advance, and that our whole structure may tumble into a heap of incoherent sand, as systems of society have done before; and, again, that it is questionable if, in what we call a stride in civilization, the individual citizen is becoming any purer or more just, or if his intelligence is directed towards learning and doing what is right, or only to the means of more extended pleasures.”

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  • “The marketplace appeared to take in stride headlines which blurb lender CIT Group Inc. filed for failure protection upon Sunday after a debt-exchange suggest to bondholders failed.”

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  • “Joan takes the social changes of the 1960s in stride, attempting to accomodate herself to them, but Richard does so with great reluctance, sometimes out of jealousy that Joan's increased activism is taking her away from him, and frequently lashing out because of it.”

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  • “As a starting kick returner, that's a huge opportunity to make plays, and that's my role so I just take it in stride and keep running and try to hit it hard," he said.”

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  • “But L'Osservatore would seem to take that in stride, too.”

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  • “Every foreign journalist, every adversary, and every ally will be reading the tea leaves to make their own assessment how badly Obama was damaged by his party's loss of political and popular support, and either take it in stride, or dangerously miscalculate.”

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  • “Singletary takes the kidding in stride because he acknowledged that Willis has a special blend of skills.”

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  • “I'm given to entertaining pessimistic thoughts on more than the rare occasion, so I'd always have some smart-alecky remark for him when he'd ask me, but we'd always take it in stride and laugh it off, and lo and behold I would almost always be pleasantly surprised.”

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  • “Not to mention Jim has never taken Michael in stride, he has always been the opposite voice of reason to Michaels inability to focus.”

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  • “The other two we took in stride, flat-out running, in fact.”

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. straddle
  1. bestride
  1. step
  1. walk
  1. cross
  1. gait

hypernyms (14)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. progress
  2. advancement
  1. cover
  2. cut through
  1. get over
  2. track
  1. cut across
  2. traverse
  1. Passover
  2. get across
  1. cross
  2. walk
  1. indefinite quantity
  2. step

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. gait
  2. pace
  3. leap
  4. tread
  1. footstep
  2. swing
  3. trot
  4. nod
  1. sweep
  2. stroke
  3. beat
  4. shake
  1. march
  2. rhythm
  3. walk
  4. gallop
  1. step
  2. jerk
  3. mien
  4. pull
  1. pose
  2. motion
  3. grasp
  4. kick

rhymes (83)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Clyde
  2. Eid
  3. Hyde
  4. Outside
  5. Pride
  6. Ride
  7. Stateside
  8. abide
  9. allied
  10. alongside
  11. applied
  12. aside
  13. astride
  14. belied
  15. beside
  16. betide
  1. bide
  2. bride
  3. chide
  4. coincide
  5. collide
  6. complied
  7. confide
  8. cried
  9. decide
  10. decried
  11. defied
  12. denied
  13. deride
  14. died
  15. divide
  16. dried
  1. dyed
  2. eid
  3. eyed
  4. flied
  5. fried
  6. glide
  7. guide
  8. hide
  9. ide
  10. implied
  11. inside
  12. lied
  13. misapplied
  14. misguide
  15. nationwide
  16. outside
  1. oversupplied
  2. pied
  3. plied
  4. preside
  5. pride
  6. pried
  7. provide
  8. pryde
  9. relied
  10. replied
  11. reside
  12. retried
  13. ride
  14. seid
  15. shied
  16. side
  1. sighed
  2. slide
  3. snide
  4. spied
  5. stateside
  6. subdivide
  7. subside
  8. supplied
  9. tide
  10. tied
  11. tried
  12. untied
  13. untried
  14. upside
  15. vide
  16. vied
  1. westside
  2. wide
  3. worldwide

reverse dictionary (31)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. strode
  2. stride
  3. lope
  4. break
  5. peck
  6. bestride
  1. outstride
  2. overstride
  3. stend
  4. strid
  5. hobble skirt
  6. mannish
  1. cock-stride
  2. heel-and-toe
  3. triple jump
  4. hurdle
  5. rising trot
  6. yard
  1. pace
  2. gallop
  3. festination
  4. march
  5. scrithe
  6. take
  1. run
  2. odograph
  3. brontozoum
  4. masculine
  5. stilt
  6. stretch
  1. Otozoum

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  • chained_bear You wouldn't have said that if you had ever been properly chidden.

    ...like how I did that? ;) Jan 9, 2009

  • sionnach Well, I think that overall there just isn't anywhere near enough chiding going on these days Jan 9, 2009

  • yarb Yep. Chidden, as pp of chide was common until fairly recently, but now seems to have fallen out of usage and so sounds slightly queer. I don't think stride lacks a standard pp, it's just rarely-used in the perfect. Jan 9, 2009

  • rolig The Oxford American also gives the past participle as stridden. I probably wouldn't say "stridden" (and would rarely say "stride" or "strode"), but I suppose I could imagine a context in which I would write it: "He had stridden the whole length of the field, as the angel had instructed, when he came upon a simple wooden chest on the lid of which were engraved four strange symbols, which he thought might be runes." I doubt if any reasonably educated English speaker would be flummoxed by the word "stridden" in this sentence, even if it's not commonly used in the present-day conversational language. Jan 9, 2009

  • chained_bear Well, no, I don't, but to be fair, I never say "stride" either.

    Unless I'm saying "she strides stridently," which strikes me as funny.

    Why isn't it just like "ride"? Jan 9, 2009

  • qroqqa But do you say 'stridden'? I don't. Nor do Deirdre Wilson, Geoff Pullum, and a number of other linguists. It's just not a natural part of standard Present-day English. Details at Language Log. Jan 9, 2009

  • chained_bear Why isn't it just like ride? (ridden) OED lists it:
    Pa. tense strode (strd), pa. pple. stridden (strd()n), (colloq.) strode. Forms: 1 strídan, 3 striden, 4 strid, (3rd pers. sing. strit), 4-6 stryd(e, 5 strydyn, 4- stride. pa. tense 4-9 north. strade, 5 Sc. straid, 5, 7 strad, 6 Sc. straide, 6 stryd, 7 strid, 7-9 strided, 5- strode. pa. pple. 6 stridde, 7 strid, 9- stridden.
    Jan 9, 2009

  • qroqqa Quirk of grammar: the verb lacks a standard past participle. Today I stride left, yesterday I strode right, so that makes twice I have . . .? Various analogical bashes can be made, of course, but you know you're making it up as you go along. Jan 9, 2009

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