bestride
verb/bɪˈstɹaɪd/US
Etymology
From Middle English bestriden, from Old English bestrīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *bistrīdan; equivalent to be- + stride. Compare Dutch bestrijden, German bestreiten.
- inherited from *bistrīdan✻
- inherited from bestrīdan
- inherited from bestriden
Definitions
To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to…
To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.
- & thou were the truest frende to thy louar that euer bestrade hors "And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse"
- But fleeter far the pinions of the Wind, / Which from Siberian caves the monarch freed, / And sent him forth, with squadrons of his kind, / And bade the Snow their ample backs bestride, / And to the battle ride.
- The knightly Crusader bestrides a war-horse of heavy proportions , which he has suddenly reined in , as he waves on high a flag as a rallying sign for his followers.
To stride over, or across.
To dominate.
- Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus[…].
- He looked up again at the portrait of Big Brother. The colossus that bestrode the world!
- You see, Jim Crow does it differently in Africa. His is a slow but tight and deadly squeeze. […] He bestrides this continent from Algiers to Cape Town, and the guns around his belt face east, west, south and north.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA