ride

CEFRA1

/ɹaɪd/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To travel on an animal, bicycle, or vehicle.

  2. 02

    noun

    A journey in a vehicle or on an animal.

Examples

  • I learnt to ride as a child.

  • Can you ride a horse?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.

  2. To transport (someone) in a vehicle.

  3. To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

More examples

In context

  • You can't ride a horse.

  • I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.

  • The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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”). Cognates 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, r...