Ride
verbTo sit on and control the movement of a horse, bicycle, or vehicle, or to travel as a passenger.
How to spell ride
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce ride
What does ride mean?
- verbTo sit on and control the movement of a horse, bicycle, or vehicle, or to travel as a passenger.
- nounA journey taken on an animal or in a vehicle, or an attraction at a fairground.
Ride in a sentence
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verb
She likes to ride her bicycle to work each morning.
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noun
He offered her a ride home after the late meeting.
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verb
The children learned to ride ponies at the summer camp.
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noun
The roller coaster was the most thrilling ride at the fair.
Where does ride come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
Ride descends from the Old English verb rīdan, which meant to travel, especially while seated on a horse or in a vehicle. It belongs to a broad family of Germanic words, with close relatives in Dutch rijden and German reiten, all carrying the same idea of being carried along while sitting. The same ancient root also gave English the word road, since a road was originally the act of riding or the journey itself rather than the surface travelled on. Over the centuries the verb broadened from horses to carriages, bicycles, trains, and cars, and a noun sense for the journey itself grew up alongside it. The spelling has stayed remarkably stable, keeping the simple long-i pattern with a silent final e.
How the word is built
- ride (whole root, from Old English rīdan: to travel on horseback)
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