Word: ride Part of Speech: noun 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”). 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, 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”). Pronunciation: /ɹaɪd/ 1. An instance of riding. Example: Can I have a ride on your bike? Example: We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods. 2. A vehicle. Labels: informal Example: That's a nice ride; what did it cost? Example: pimp my ride 3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. Example: the kids went on all the rides 4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle. Example: Can you give me a ride home? 5. A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path. Labels: UK Example: We walked, perhaps, half a mile […], and came out suddenly, where five rides met, at a small classic temple between lichened stucco statues which faced a circle of turf, several acres in extent. Example: "Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field..." 6. A saddle horse. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal Example: Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride. 7. A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive. Labels: Ireland Example: Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M. 8. A steady rhythmical style. 9. Ellipsis of ride cymbal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 10. A wild, bewildering experience of some duration. Labels: figuratively Example: That story was a ride from start to finish. Example: We all started to dance / Without wearing no life vest / We all started to dance / It was quite a ride 11. An act of sexual intercourse. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast. 12. A district inspected by an excise officer. 13. A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc. Labels: historical