Definitions
significant progress (especially in the phrase ‘make strides’)
Word origin
From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).
Used in a sentence
“Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.”
“a debtor that not dares to stride a limit”
“For SAC66 is better known as Batty Moss (or Ribblehead) Viaduct - the magnificent, Grade 2-listed, 24-arch structure that strides over the pockmarked ground between Ribblehead station and Blea Moor signal box.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Long step”6 letters
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