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rider en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ˈɹɒ̈ɪ̯.ɾəː] ~ [ˈɹɒ̈ɪ̯.ɾɐ̝ː] t-flapping
  • /ˈɹʌɪ.dəɹ/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈɹaɪ̯.dɚ/ without t-flapping
  • [ˈɹʷɑ̟ɪ̯.dəː] ~ [ˈɹʷɑ̟ɪ̯.dɐ̝ː] without t-flapping
  • [ˈɹʷaɪ̯.dɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷaɪ̯.dɹ̩] without t-flapping
  • [ˈɹʷaɪ̯dəː] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈɹʷɑ̟ɪ̯.ɾəː] ~ [ˈɹʷɑ̟ɪ̯.ɾɐ̝ː] t-flapping
  • [ˈɹɒ̈ɪ̯.dəː] ~ [ˈɹɒ̈ɪ̯.dɐ̝ː] without t-flapping
  • /ˈɹɒɪ̯.dəː/ without t-flapping
  • [ˈɹʷʌɪ.dəɹ] (Scotland)
  • /ˈɹɑɪ̯.dəː/ without t-flapping
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈɹʷaɪ̯.ɾɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷaɪ̯.ɾɹ̩] t-flapping
  • /ˈɹaɪ̯.ɾɚ/ t-flapping
  • /ˈɹɒɪ̯.ɾəː/ t-flapping
  • /ˈɹaɪ̯.dəː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɹɑɪ̯.ɾəː/ t-flapping

Etymology

From Middle English ryder, ridere, from Late Old English rīdere (“rider, knight”). Compare Dutch rijder, German Reiter. By surface analysis, ride + -er.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, historical) A mounted person. ▸ A knight, or other mounted warrior.
  2. A mounted person. ▸ An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
    • His mouldy money! half a dozen riders. c. 1609–1622?, John Fletcher, “The Womans Prize: Or, The Tamer Tamed”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  3. (qualifier:generally) A mounted person. ▸ Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.
    • BMX rider Saya Sakakibara is all too aware of the risks of her chosen profession. 2024 July 9, Martynas Ruseckas, “After her brother suffered a brain injury in a bike crash, this Olympic BMX rider has a new perspective on what success means”, in CNN:
    • After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering. […] When customers buy a Harley, they’re instantly a member of a family of zealous fans — guys with tattoos and unruly hair as well as lawyers and doctors. (The average household income of today’s rider is about $87,000.) 2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
    • The eyes of Holstein de Dorenstorff stared, wildly, upon a figure, which at this instant appeared, mounted on a beautiful beast,[…]; its rider was enveloped in a kind of large, concealing coat, which well answered the intent of its purport: […] 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter II, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 23:
  4. (Philippines) A mounted person. ▸ A motorcycle enthusiast; a motorcycle club member.
  5. (archaic, historical) A mounted person. ▸ A mounted robber; a bandit, especially in the Scottish borders.
    • In Ewsdale eight and forty notorious riders are hung on growing trees, the most famous of which was John Armstrong 1655, William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of Scotland […] :
  6. (obsolete) A mounted person. ▸ Someone who breaks in or manages a horse; a riding master.
    • They are taught their mannage, and to that end Riders deerely hir'd. c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  7. (archaic, historical) A mounted person. ▸ An agent who goes out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller or travelling salesman.
    • I set out with a Paisley manufacturer and a London rider, the latter of whom I envied for his smartness and self-complacency. 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journal 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 70
  8. (US) A mounted person. ▸ Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport.
    • 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. 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, →ISSN:
  9. A mounted person. ▸ A boarder, a person who rides a board in boardsports. ▸ A skateboarder
    • In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.” 2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN:
  10. A mounted person. ▸ A boarder, a person who rides a board in boardsports. ▸ A snowboarder
  11. An addition, supplement. ▸ A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature.
  12. An addition, supplement. ▸ An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.
    • I had sixteen nudity riders to sign and having Jean, our intimacy coordinator, Jean Franzblau, was absolutely pivotal to being able to do this. 2023 July 10, 1:07:39 from the start, in The Making of IMMORTALITY:
  13. An addition, supplement. ▸ An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification.
    • It was generally added, as a rider to this, that although Marxism was scientifically true it was bound to be resisted by the possessing classes, as it prophesied their downfall. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 241:
    • But they would hush momentarily for the farce, specially if billed with the grand rider: 'licensed by the Lord Chamberlain expressly for this theatre'. 2015, Ed Glinert, East End Chronicles, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
  14. An addition, supplement. ▸ A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics.
    • This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer. 1886, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, The Wind of Destiny:
  15. An addition, supplement. ▸ An add-on to an insurance policy.
  16. Technical senses. ▸ 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.
    • 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 2016, Lucy Blue, Frederick M. Hocker, Anton Englert, Connected by the Sea:
  17. (archaic) Technical senses. ▸ Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
  18. (in-plural) Technical senses. ▸ The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
  19. Technical senses. ▸ A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.
  20. Technical senses. ▸ The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
  21. Technical senses. ▸ 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.
    • It simply blocks the cell to entry by any piece, though riders may pass over it (otherwise checkmates become difficult, since the coin could be used to block any distant check by a rider). […] Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir. 2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, pages 9, 10:

Forms

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riders Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

allonge (attached information) · passenger (mounted person) · attachment (attached information) · leaper · driver (mounted person)

Deriveds

pickup rider · stockrider · buckjump rider · nonrider · butt rider · batty rider · horserider · coffin rider · black rider · dickrider · rideress · free rider · riderless · boundary-rider · nutrider · roughrider · post rider · waverider · forerider · rug rider · meatrider · inclusion rider · blackrider · red rider · surf rider · dispatch rider · postrider · ridered · freedom rider · circuit rider · gang-rider · dragonrider · ridership · white rider · scrub rider · lowrider · sausage rider · nightrider · horse rider · bowrider · transport rider · spring rider · pale rider · hedge rider · Rough Riders · rough rider · camel rider · boardrider · surfrider · backrider · boundary rider

Relateds

mountie (mounted person)

Synonyms

horseman (mounted person)

Translations (162)

sa यावन् (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sq kalorës (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · vi kị mã (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fi ponsi (politics: additional provision annexed to a bill) · vi người cưỡi ngựa (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · nl rijder (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · pl jeździec (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · be ве́ршніца (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ltg juojiejs (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · be нае́знік (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ar رَاكِبَة (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ko 기수 (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fi ratsastaja (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · tr atlı (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fi motoristi (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · be нае́зьнік (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ka მხედარი (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · is viðauki við samning (politics: additional provision annexed to a bill) · mn морьтон (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ko 라이더 (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · km អ្នកជិះសេះ (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · km សាទិន (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · et ratsanik (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fi lisäehdot (amendment to an entertainer's performance contract) · ga fo-fhadhb (math: problem of extra difficulty added to another on an examination paper) · fi ajaja (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ro călăreț (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fi kauppamatkustaja (commercial traveller) · da rytter (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · de Fahrradfahrer (on a bike) (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sl jezdec (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · mh ri-uwe (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ms penunggang (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · de Mofafahrer (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · bg допълни́телна кла́уза (politics: additional provision annexed to a bill) · ru дополне́ние (politics: additional provision annexed to a bill) · ka ცხენოსანი (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ru нае́здница (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · be нае́зніца (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · is reiðmaður (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fi moottoripyöräilijä (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · cmn 騎手 /骑手 (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · uk наї́зник (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · nl motorrijder (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · uk ве́ршник (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fa-ira اَسْبسَوار (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · it centauro (on a motorbike) (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · kk салт атты (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · th ผู้ขี่ (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ja ライダー (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · kk шабандоз (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fa-ira سَوار (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · is riddari (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · alt атту (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · nn ryttar (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · es jinete (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · mk јавач (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · gd marcach (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · la adiectio (politics: additional provision annexed to a bill) · ur سَوار (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sv ryttare (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · es pasajero (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · uk наї́зниця (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sh jahàčica (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ru нае́здник (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · lo ຄົນຂີ່ມ້າ (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · mk јавачка (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ro călăreață (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · mt rikkieba (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · lv jātnieks (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ug چەۋەنداز (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · pt cavaleiro (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ru ра́йдер (amendment to an entertainer's performance contract) · cy beiciwr (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · de Mopedfahrer (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · co cavalieru (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · pl jeźdźczyni (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · grc ἱππεύς (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · yi רייטער (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · az atlı (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · tg савор (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ga marcach (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · cmn 車手 /车手 (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · nl ruiter (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · az minici (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · cmn 騎者 /骑者 (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · hu lovas (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · id pengendara (on a motorbike) (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · uz chavandoz (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ca genet (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · tk çapyksuwar (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · mi kaieke (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · lt jojikas (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · la rēctrīx (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · bg езда́ч (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · he רוֹכֵב (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · cs jezdkyně (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · cy marchog (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · grc ἱππότης (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ru вса́дница (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ang ridda (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · de Motorradfahrer (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · cs jezdec (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · gv markiagh (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · it cavaliere (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ky атчан (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fr cavalière (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · lv jājējs (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ru ездо́к (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ky чабандес (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ru седо́к (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sl motorist (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sk jazdec (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · bg езда́чка (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · hy հեծյալ (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ja 乗り手 (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · el αναβάτρια (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · la adiectio (amendment to an entertainer's performance contract) · nb rytter (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fi kuljettaja (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sh ја̀ха̄ч (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sh jàhāč (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · it motociclista (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · de Reiter (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · be ве́ршнік (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ru вса́дник (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · id penunggang (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · et ratsutaja (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · hi सवार (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · lt raitelis (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ja 騎手 (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · vi kị sĩ (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · de Zureiter (one who breaks in or manages a horse) · mt rikkieb (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · is knapi (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · goh ritto (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · cmn 騎士 /骑士 (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fr cavalier (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · izh ajaja (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · uz otliq (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · tr binici (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · fi lisäetu (additional benefit attached to an insurance contract) · grc ἱππότις (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sk jazdkyňa (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · tk atly (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · de Reiterin (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sl motoristka (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · cu въсадьникъ (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sl jahačica (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ltg raitinīks (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ur گُھڑ سَوار (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ga aguisín (politics: additional provision annexed to a bill) · sq kalorëse (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sh јаха̀чица (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · el αναβάτης (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · ar رَاكِب (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · la rēctor (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · tt җайдак (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · sl jahač (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver) · de Zusatzklausel (politics: additional provision annexed to a bill) · fi ratsastaja (first Lenormand card) · uk ве́ршниця (one who rides — see also cyclist, driver)