Bestride

Word BESTRIDE
Character 8
Hyphenation be stride
Pronunciations /bəˈstɹaɪd/

Definitions and meanings of "Bestride"

What do we mean by bestride?

To sit or stand on with the legs astride; straddle. transitive verb

To dominate by position; tower over. transitive verb

To step or stride across. transitive verb

To straddle over; mount astride of; stretch the legs or corresponding parts across so as to embrace: as, to bestride a horse; spectacles bestriding the nose.

To step over; cross by stepping.

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over. transitive verb

To step over; to stride over or across. transitive verb

To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse. verb

To dominate. verb

Get up on the back of verb

To be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.

To stride over, or across.

To dominate.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Bestride

The word "bestride" in example sentences

Now when Kanmakan heard these words, he cried out, saying, “O villain, this I bestride is the steed whereof ye speak and after which ye seek, and ye would do battle with me for his sake’ So come out against me, all of you at once, and do you dourest for the nonce!” ❋ Unknown (2006)

It's astonishing that our political leaders from both parties apparently believe that the United States can continue to bestride the world like an imperial colossus remaking entire societies in the image put forth by the Council of Foreign Relations or the American Enterprise Institute while at the same time becoming a pauper state that cannot even provide health care for its senior citizens. ❋ Joseph A. Palermo (2011)

The history of private-sector market dominance is filled with such seemingly sudden disappearing acts: Big-box music retailers and bookstores were supposed to bestride the land like colossi at the turn of our new century, but Virgin megastores have all but disappeared, and Borders has just gone bankrupt. ❋ Nick Gillespie (2011)

"It is vastly wonderful for so stupid a clod to bestride the shoulders of time and ride the eternities." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But it is my father I see against the landscape of my mind—the monarch bestride the world, fighting for all that he believed in no matter what the cost. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I move, I have the power of movement, I command movement of the live thing I bestride. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though it does not yet quite talk the talk of "digital first" – looking forward, like the Journal Register group in the US or the Guardian here in Britain, to the days when dead trees are left to lie and paperless news organisations bestride the net – it is, nevertheless, envisaging a certain sort of future: one where everything changes, everything is up for grabs. ❋ Unknown (2012)

And what can be meaningfully related of the whipping, snarling masters bestride them and their sinewy, flailing arms! ❋ Andrew Edwards (2011)

Through his international exploits—in pre-revolutionary Shanghai, the jungles of Peru, a faux Eastern European police state, even the surface of the moon 20 years before Neil Armstrong got there—Tintin shows young readers that the world in all its complexity is theirs to bestride. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2011)

( "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/like a Colossus ....") ❋ Celia Wren (2010)

He is one man that has bestride the political corridor like a colosus without base. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rather than a benevolent "socialist" super power China, whose population is made up over 90% Han Chinese, will bestride the world as a racially homogeneous, and communalistic "Middle Kingdom." ❋ Unknown (2010)

You would like to be in charge of the entire solar system, but until that domain is blessed with a governance framework for you to jovially bestride you must limit your ambitions to becoming the prime minister of Britain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

America could be the planet's last Big Daddy -- the last of the Empires to bestride the world, in a new era defined by the retreat of the State and the triumph of personal-empowerment technologies enabling global citizens to forge their own links to each other. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They never had this plethora of billionaires who bestride Indian public life now in such a flamboyant manner, pontificating about everything. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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