rider
noun
Simple meaning
A traveler who actively rides an animal.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈɹaɪdɚ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
generally
A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)
generally
A traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)
generally
Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.
A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
A mounted person.
An addition, supplement.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate (estimated)
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)
Used this way, rider is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use rider
- “The bike rider wore a helmet for safety on the busy road.”
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Word Family
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson.
A performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging.
A member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898).
A messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle).
One of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation.
A man skilled in equitation.
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