gait

Speech parts

1. gait - Noun

2. gait - Verb

Meaning

A going; a walk; a march; a way.

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pace march movement step walk bearing carriage stride footfall cadence gallop rate speed amble motion
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Antonyms

lodge scrabble snook remain rest continue
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Hypernyms

rate travel walk walking locomotion

Hyponyms

waddle gallop lope canter hobble lurch

Phrases with the word

long steady gait slow gait train in a particular gait hambletonian gait twisted gait gait-over

Anagrams

Gita taig

Examples

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone. William Wordsworth

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years. Albert Einstein

A large mirror,-so at first it seemed to me in my confusion-now stood where none had been perceptible before; and, as I stepped up to it in extremity of terror, mine own image, but with features all pale and dabbled in blood, advanced to meet me with a feeble and tottering gait. Edgar Allan Poe

Nobody walks with another man's gait. Kenyan Proverb

Every man wears his belt his ain gait. Scottish Proverb

Nobody walks with another man's gait. Kikuyu Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Gaiser Gaiseric gaison gait apraxia gait disturbance gait-over