Word Meanings - ASTRIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASTRIDE)

• Apace
• Rapidly
• fast
• astride
• eagerly
• ahead
• expeditiously
• speedily

Related words: (words related to ASTRIDE)

• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• ASTRIDE
  With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.
• AHEAD
  1. In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding. 2. Headlong; without restraint. L'Estrange. To go ahead. To go in advance. To go on onward. To push on in an enterprise. -- To get ahead of.
• SPEEDILY
  In a speedy manner.
• EAGERLY
  In an eager manner.
• APACE
  With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.
• CARAPACE
  The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
• RAPACES
  See ACCIPITRES
• MEAGERLY; MEAGRELY
  Poorly; thinly.