rider

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who rides a horse, bicycle, motorcycle, or similar.

   The rider guided her horse over the fence.

2. 2
   noun

   A person travelling in a vehicle but not driving it.

   The bus was full of riders heading downtown.

3. 3
   noun

   An extra condition or section added to a document or law.

   The senator attached a rider to the spending bill.

* As an English surname, from the noun rider. * Also as an English surname, from Old English rēodan (“to clear out”), from Proto-West Germanic *reudan. Compare Reeder. * Also as an English surname, from dialectal rithe (“small stream”). * As an Irish surname, calque from Irish ó marcaigh (“descendant of the (horse)rider”). This is also found directly in Markey. * As a German surname, Americanized from Reiter.

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