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English

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Etymology

From Middle English ryder, ridere, from Late Old English rīdere (rider, knight); equivalent to ride +‎ -er. Compare Dutch rijder, German Reiter.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
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Noun

rider (plural riders)

  1. A mounted person.
    1. (now archaic or historical) A knight, or other mounted warrior. [from 11th c.]
    2. An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it. [from 14th c.]
    3. (generally) Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc. [from 14th c.]
    4. (now historical or archaic) A mounted robber; a bandit, especially in the Scottish borders. [from 16th c.]
      • 1655, William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of Scotland [] :
        In Evosdale eight and fourty notorious Riders are hung on growing Trees, the most famous of which was John Arm-Strong
    5. (obsolete) Someone who breaks in or manages a horse; a riding master. [16th–17th c.]
    6. (now rare, historical) An agent who goes out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller or travelling salesman. [from 18th c.]
      • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journal 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 70:
        I set out with a Paisley manufacturer and a London rider, the latter of whom I envied for his smartness and self-complacency.
    7. (now chiefly US) Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport. [from 19th c.]
      • 2021 March 25, Somini Sengupta, Geneva Abdul, Manuela Andreoni, Veronica Penney, “Riders Are Abandoning Buses and Trains. That's a Problem for Climate Change.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
        On the London Underground, Piccadilly Circus station is nearly vacant on a weekday morning, while the Delhi Metro is ferrying fewer than half of the riders it used to.
  2. An addition, supplement.
    1. (politics) A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature. [from 17th c.]
    2. An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements. [from 20th c.]
      • 2023 July 10, 1:07:39 from the start, in The Making of IMMORTALITY[2]:
        I had sixteen nudity riders to sign and having Jean, our intimacy coordinator, Jean Franzblau, was absolutely pivotal to being able to do this.
    3. An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification. [from 19th c.]
      • 2015, Ed Glinert, East End Chronicles[3], Penguin UK, →ISBN:
        But they would hush momentarily for the farce, specially if billed with the grand rider: 'licensed by the Lord Chamberlain expressly for this theatre'.
    4. A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics. [from 19th c.]
      • 1886, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, The Wind of Destiny:
        This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer.
    5. (insurance) An add-on to an insurance policy.
  3. Technical senses.
    1. (shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame. [from 17th c.]
      • 2016, Lucy Blue, Frederick M. Hocker, Anton Englert, Connected by the Sea:
        During the four weeks of research, a considerable part of the ships structure was discovered underneath the ballast stones: keel, floor timbers, strakes, keelson together with mast step and its sisters and rider
    2. (mining, now rare) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it. [from 17th c.]
    3. (nautical, in the plural) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold. [from 19th c.]
    4. A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights. [from 19th c.]
    5. (cartomancy) The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
    6. (chess) A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction, as long as no other piece is in the way.

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Danish

Noun

rider c

  1. indefinite plural of ride

Verb

rider

  1. present of ride

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French rider, from Old French rider (to wrinkle), from Old High German rīdan, wrīdan (to turn; twist; wind; wring; wind up; wrench), from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan (to turn, twist). Cognate with German reiden (to turn; tie up; lace). More at writhe.

Pronunciation

Verb

rider

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to wrinkle
Conjugation

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English ride.

Pronunciation

Verb

rider

  1. (Louisiana, Cajun) to ride
Conjugation

Interlingua

Verb

rider

  1. to laugh

Middle English

Noun

rider

  1. Alternative form of ryder

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rider (to wrinkle), from Old High German rīdan (to turn; twist).

Verb

rider

  1. to wrinkle

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

  • French: rider

Middle Low German

Etymology

From the verb rîden (ride). Cognate with English rider and German Reiter (rider).

Pronunciation

Noun

rîder

  1. a rider

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rider

  1. present of ride

Spanish

Noun

rider m (plural rideres)

  1. rider, biker (motorcyclist)

Swedish

Verb

rider

  1. present indicative of rida

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