bestride

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to sit or stand astride; to dominate

   The colossus seemed to bestride the entire harbor.

Simplified etymology

Bestride is recorded from Old English and is related to the Germanic word stride. The earliest recorded Old English sense of stride was “straddle” or “stand with the legs apart,” a meaning close to that of bestride; the sense “take long steps” developed later in English.

From Old English bestrīdan ('to mount, straddle'), from be- + strīdan ('to stride').

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