“rode” is a form of
ride
/ɹaɪd/ verb, noun
Forms rides riding rode ridden rid rade ridest rodest rideth
- verb (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. “I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.”
- verb (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- verb (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. “The cab rode him downtown.”
- verb (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- verb (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. “The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.”
- verb (transitive) To traverse by riding.
- verb (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. “How many races have you ridden this year?”
- verb (transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
- noun An instance of riding. “Can I have a ride on your bike?”
- noun (informal) A vehicle. “That's a nice ride; what did it cost?”
- noun An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. “the kids went on all the rides”
- noun A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle. “Can you give me a ride home?”
- noun (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
- noun (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
- noun (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- noun (jazz) A steady rhythmical style.
Synonyms
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Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną (“to ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ- (“to ride”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”).
From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride, ridj, rir (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Dutch rijden, ryden (“to ride; to drive”), German reiten, reuten (“to ride”), German Low German rieden (“to ride; to drive”), Limburgish rieje (“to ride; to drive”), Luxembourgish reiden (“to ride”), Vilamovian raeita, rajta (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Faroese and Icelandic ríða (“to ride”), Norwegian Bokmål ri, ride (“to ride”), Norwegian Nynorsk ri, rida, ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”).
From Indo-European: Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin irrītō (“to excite, incite, stimulate; to exasperate”), Ancient Greek ὀρῑ́νω (orī́nō, “to move, stir”), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Russian ре́ять (réjatʹ, “to fly, hover, soar”), Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to get up; to rise up”), Northern Kurdish rîtin (“to shit”), Persian ریدن (ridan, “to shit; to fuck up, to screw up”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Hittite 𒅈𒉡𒊻𒍣 (ar-nu-uz-zi, “to address, send”), Sanskrit रीति (rīti, “course, motion; current, stream; line, row”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
- verb To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
- verb To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
- verb To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
Etymology [AS. ridan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. ritan, Icel. riedha, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word. Cf. Road.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ride”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details