astride

Speech parts

1. astride - Adverb

2. astride - Preposition

Meaning

With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

astraddle across throughout mounted horseback saddle straddle agee upon piggyback mesial ahorseback athwart spanning intermedial
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Antonyms

aside uneven one-sided one side on the right on the left
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Phrases with the word

get astride stand astride be astride non astride sit astride

Anagrams

diaster disrate asterid restiad sideart staired

Examples

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own. Plutarch

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. Samuel Beckett

Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial... H. P. Lovecraft

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. Charles Kingsley

Two things cannot be hidden: being astride a camel and being pregnant. Lebanese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

astrictive astrictory Astrid Astridge astriferous astringe