STRODE

STRIDE

stride

(verb) cover or traverse by taking long steps; “She strode several miles towards the woods”

stride

(verb) walk with long steps; “He strode confidently across the hall”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

strode

simple past tense of stride

past participle of stride

Anagrams

• Dorset, Doster, Droste, doters, rodest, sorted, stored, torsed

Proper noun

Strode (plural Strodes)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Strode is the 9734^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3331 individuals. Strode is most common among White (80.73%) and Black/African American (13.96%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Dorset, Doster, Droste, doters, rodest, sorted, stored, torsed

Source: Wiktionary

Strode, n.

Definition: See Strude. [Obs.]

Strode,

Definition: imp. of Stride.

STRIDE

Stride, v. t. [imp. Strode (Obs. Strid (); p. p. Stridden (Obs. Strid); p. pr. & vb. n. Striding.] Etym: [AS. stridan to stride, to strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strida to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. stritan; of uncertain origin. Cf. Straddle.]

1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.

2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.

Stride, v. t.

1. To pass over at a step; to step over. "A debtor that not dares to stride a limit." Shak.

2. To straddle; to bestride. I mean to stride your steed. Shak.

Stride, n.

Definition: The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride. Pope. God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom. Cowper.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition