ride – English noun declension

English noun forms of ride

Noun: ride
Singularride
Pluralrides

Sample Sentences

  • Can I have a ride on your bike?
  • We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
  • go for a quick ride
  • That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
  • pimp my ride
  • the kids went on all the rides
  • Can you give me a ride home?
  • We walked, perhaps, half a mile […], and came out suddenly, where five rides met, at a small classic temple between lichened stucco statues which faced a circle of turf, several acres in extent. [1913, Rudyard Kipling, “The Edge of the Evening”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 276:]
  • "Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field..." [2015, Roderic Jeffries, Death in the Coverts, →ISBN:]
  • Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride. [1904, Country Gentleman:]
  • Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M. [2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, “Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):]
  • That story was a ride from start to finish.
  • We all started to dance / Without wearing no life vest / We all started to dance / It was quite a ride [2002, “Manila”, performed by Seelenluft ft. Michael Smith:]
  • I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.

Etymology

1. From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną (“to ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ- (“to ride”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”).
2. Cognates
3. From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride, ridj, rir (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Dutch rijden, ryden (“to ride; to drive”), German reiten, reuten (“to ride”), German Low German rieden (“to ride; to drive”), Limburgish rieje (“to ride; to drive”), Luxembourgish reiden (“to ride”), Vilamovian raeita, rajta (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Faroese and Icelandic ríða (“to ride”), Norwegian Bokmål ri, ride (“to ride”), Norwegian Nynorsk ri, rida, ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”).
4. From Indo-European: Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin irrītō (“to excite, incite, stimulate; to exasperate”), Ancient Greek ὀρῑ́νω (orī́nō, “to move, stir”), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Russian ре́ять (réjatʹ, “to fly, hover, soar”), Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to get up; to rise up”), Northern Kurdish rîtin (“to shit”), Persian ریدن (ridan, “to shit; to fuck up, to screw up”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Hittite 𒅈𒉡𒊻𒍣 (ar-nu-uz-zi, “to address, send”), Sanskrit रीति (rīti, “course, motion; current, stream; line, row”). See: Old English Nouns 'rīdan', German Nouns 'reiten', Danish Nouns 'ride', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'ri', Latin Nouns 'irrītō'.

Verbs referencing "ride"

Latin Nouns raeda.