ride

English Online Dictionary. What means ride‎? What does ride mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode)

1. (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]
2. (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c., transitive usage from 19th c.]
3. (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. [from 17th c.]

4. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. [from 10th c.]
5. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. [from 10th c.]

6. (transitive) To traverse by riding.
7. (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
9. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

10. (ambitransitive, slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them. [from 13th c.]
11. (ambitransitive, Ireland, slang) To have sex with (someone).
12. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]
13. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]
14. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]
15. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]
16. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
17. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
18. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
19. (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
20. (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get it on; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ride (plural rides)

1. An instance of riding.

2. (informal) A vehicle.

3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.

5. (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
6. (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
7. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
8. (jazz) A steady rhythmical style.
9. Ellipsis of ride cymbal.
10. (figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
11. (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.

    Synonyms: shag, fuck, cop, bang

12. A district inspected by an excise officer.
13. (printing, historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Deri, Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, drie, ired

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riːðə/, [ˈʁiːðə], [ˈʁiðð̩]
• Rhymes: -iːdə

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Faroese ryta, rita or Icelandic rita, from Old Norse rytr, derived from the verb rjóta (“to cry”), from the verb Proto-Germanic *reutaną.

Noun

ride c (singular definite riden, plural indefinite rider)

1. black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ríða, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, cognate with English ride, German reiten.

Verb

ride (past tense red, past participle redet, c reden, definite or plural redne)

1. to ride (to sit on the back of an animal)
2. (slang) to have intercourse with (sex position with one person sitting on top of another like on a horse)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ridetur
• ridning

French

Etymology

From rider.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁid/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

ride f (plural rides)

1. wrinkle, line (on face etc.)
2. ripple
3. ridge

Related terms

• ridé
• rider

Verb

ride

1. inflection of rider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “ride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dire

Galician

Verb

ride

1. second-person plural imperative of rir

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: rì‧de

Verb

ride

1. third-person singular present indicative of ridere

Anagrams

• Drei, Redi, dire, idre, redi

Latin

Verb

rīdē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rīdeō

Middle English

Verb

ride

1. alternative form of riden

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• ridj (Föhr-Amrum)
• rir (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian rīda, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan. Cognates include West Frisian ride.

Pronunciation

• (Mooring) IPA^(key): [ˈrɪdə]

Verb

ride

1. (Mooring) to ride (on a horse, mount)

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ri

Etymology

From Old Norse ríða.

Verb

ride (imperative rid, present tense rider, passive rides, simple past red or rei, past participle ridd, present participle ridende)

1. to ride (e.g. a horse)

Derived terms

• ridedyr
• ridepisk
• ridning

References

• “ride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ride (present tense rid, past tense reid, past participle ride or ridd or ridt, present participle ridande, imperative rid)

1. alternative form of rida

Derived terms

• ridedyr
• ridepisk

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈriː.de/
• IPA^(key): /ˈri.de/

Verb

rīde

1. inflection of rīdan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Verb

ride

1. inflection of rīdan:
   1. second-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive

Portuguese

Verb

ride

1. second-person plural imperative of rir

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian rīda, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈridə/, /ˈriːdə/

Verb

ride

1. (intransitive) to ride
2. (ambitransitive) to drive

Inflection

Further reading

• “ride (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011