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Added 9 October 2026

stride

/stɹaɪd/ verb

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about stride at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

To walk with long steps.
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
To pass over at a step; to step over.

noun

A long step in walking.
She set off with a purposeful stride.
The distance covered by a long step.
The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.

Origin

From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).

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