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Definition of Bestride
1. Verb. Get up on the back of. "Mount a horse"
Generic synonyms: Move
Specialized synonyms: Remount
Antonyms: Hop Out
Derivative terms: Mount
Definition of Bestride
1. v. t. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
Definition of Bestride
1. Verb. To be astride something, to sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse. ¹
2. Verb. (figuratively) To dominate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bestride
1. to straddle [v -STRODE or -STRID, -STRIDDEN, -STRIDING, -STRIDES] - See also: straddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestride
Literary usage of Bestride
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"White myriads for death to bestride In t In.- charge of the ruining Atlantic
Where deaths by regiments ride, With clouds and clamors of waters. ..."
2. Hudibras: A Poem by Samuel Butler (1822)
"So have I seen, with armed heel, 925 A wight bestride a Commonweal, While still
the more he kick'd and spurr'd, The less the sullen jade has stirr'd. ..."
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