Astride Definition

ə-strīd
adverb
With a leg on each side.
Riding astride.
American Heritage
With a leg on either side; astraddle.
Webster's New World
With the legs wide apart.
American Heritage
With legs far apart.
Webster's New World

With one’s legs on either side.

The men ride their horses astride.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
preposition
On or over and with a leg on each side of.
American Heritage
With a leg on either side of (a horse, etc.)
Webster's New World
Situated on both sides of.
American Heritage
Lying on both sides of.
A town astride the river.
Webster's New World
Lying across or over; spanning.
American Heritage

Origin of Astride

  • From a- +‎ stride.

    From Wiktionary

Astride Sentence Examples

  • Riding astride is sometimes recommended for women.

  • Crouched astride a bike was a great place to think and he surely needed training with his July week in Iowa getting closer all the time.

  • Ladies ride asses and sit astride.

  • By nightfall the situation was all in favour of the allies; for Grouchy was now actually outside the four Prussian corps, who were by this time concentrated astride the Dyle at Wavre.

  • But in the following observations we deal generally with the more important features of riding as practised astride.

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Words Starting With

AASAST

Words Ending With

EDEIDE

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astride

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