rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: rī'də
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.də(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠aɪdə(ɹ̠)]
enpr: rī'dər
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.dəɹ/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠aɪɾɚ]
ipa: [ˈɹ̠äɪɾɚ]
note: r
enpr: rī'də
ipa: /ˈɹɑɪ.də(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠ʷɑe̯də(ɹʷ)]
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.dəɹ/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠aɪɾ(ə)ɹ̠]
ipa: /ˈɹʌɪ.dəɹ/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠əjɾ(ə)ɹ̠]
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
homophone: writer (with flapping but without Canadian raising)
Forms: form: riders
Etymology: From Middle English ryder, ridere, from Late Old English rīdere (“rider, knight”). Compare Dutch rijder, German Reiter. By surface analysis, ride + -er.
Senses: glosses: A mounted person.
A knight, or other mounted warrior.
examples: text: His mouldy money! half a dozen riders.
ref: c. 1609–1622?, John Fletcher, “The Womans Prize: Or, The Tamer Tamed”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A mounted person.
An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
examples: text: The eyes of Holstein de Dorenstorff stared, wildly, upon a figure, which at this instant appeared, mounted on a beautiful beast,[…]; its rider was enveloped in a kind of large, concealing coat, which well answered the intent of its purport: […]
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter II, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 23:
text: After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering. […] When customers buy a Harley, they’re instantly a member of a family of zealous fans  guys with tattoos and unruly hair as well as lawyers and doctors. (The average household income of today’s rider is about $87,000.)
ref: 2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
text: BMX rider Saya Sakakibara is all too aware of the risks of her chosen profession.
ref: 2024 July 9, Martynas Ruseckas, “After her brother suffered a brain injury in a bike crash, this Olympic BMX rider has a new perspective on what success means”, in CNN:
glosses: A mounted person.
Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.
qualifier: generally
examples: text: In Ewsdale eight and forty notorious riders are hung on growing trees, the most famous of which was John Armstrong
ref: 1655, William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of Scotland […] :
glosses: A mounted person.
A mounted robber; a bandit, especially in the Scottish borders.
examples: text: They are taught their mannage, and to that end Riders deerely hir'd.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: A mounted person.
Someone who breaks in or manages a horse; a riding master.
examples: text: I set out with a Paisley manufacturer and a London rider, the latter of whom I envied for his smartness and self-complacency.
ref: 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journal 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 70
glosses: A mounted person.
An agent who goes out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller or travelling salesman.
examples: text: On the London Underground, Piccadilly Circus station is nearly vacant on a weekday morning, while the Delhi Metro is ferrying fewer than half of the riders it used to.
ref: 2021 March 25, Somini Sengupta, Geneva Abdul, Manuela Andreoni, Veronica Penney, “Riders Are Abandoning Buses and Trains. That's a Problem for Climate Change.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A mounted person.
Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport.
examples: text: In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
ref: 2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A mounted person.
A boarder, a person who rides a board in boardsports.
A skateboarder
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A mounted person.
A boarder, a person who rides a board in boardsports.
A snowboarder
topics: government
politics
glosses: An addition, supplement.
A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature.
examples: text: I had sixteen nudity riders to sign and having Jean, our intimacy coordinator, Jean Franzblau, was absolutely pivotal to being able to do this.
ref: 2023 July 10, 1:07:39 from the start, in The Making of IMMORTALITY:
glosses: An addition, supplement.
An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.
examples: text: But they would hush momentarily for the farce, specially if billed with the grand rider: 'licensed by the Lord Chamberlain expressly for this theatre'.
ref: 2015, Ed Glinert, East End Chronicles, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: An addition, supplement.
An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification.
examples: text: This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer.
ref: 1886, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, The Wind of Destiny:
glosses: An addition, supplement.
A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: An addition, supplement.
An add-on to an insurance policy.
examples: text: During the four weeks of research, a considerable part of the ships structure was discovered underneath the ballast stones: keel, floor timbers, strakes, keelson together with mast step and its sisters and rider
ref: 2016, Lucy Blue, Frederick M. Hocker, Anton Englert, Connected by the Sea:
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: Technical senses.
An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Technical senses.
Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Technical senses.
The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
glosses: Technical senses.
A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Technical senses.
The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
examples: text: It simply blocks the cell to entry by any piece, though riders may pass over it (otherwise checkmates become difficult, since the coin could be used to block any distant check by a rider). […] Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.
ref: 2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, pages 9, 10:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Technical senses.
A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction as long as no other piece is in the way.
coordinate_terms: leaper
Synonyms: sense: mounted person
word: horseman
Coordinate terms: sense: attached information
word: allonge
sense: attached information
word: attachment
sense: mounted person
word: driver
sense: mounted person
word: passenger
Derived terms: word: batty rider
english: Famine
translation: Famine
word: black rider
word: boundary rider
word: boundary-rider
word: butt rider
word: camel rider
word: circuit rider
word: coffin rider
word: dispatch rider
word: forerider
word: freedom rider
word: free rider
word: gang-rider
word: hedge rider
word: horse rider
word: inclusion rider
word: lowrider
word: night rider
english: Death
translation: Death
word: pale rider
word: pickup rider
word: post rider
english: War
translation: War
word: red rider
word: roughrider
word: rough rider
word: Rough Riders
word: rug rider
word: sausage rider
word: scrub rider
word: spring rider
word: surf rider
word: transport rider
word: waverider
english: Conquest
translation: Conquest
word: white rider
Related terms: sense: mounted person
word: mountie