strode

For the verb: "to stride"

Simple Past:	strode
Past Participle:	stridden

Multiple Entries:
  strode    stride  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strode/strəʊd/

past of stride.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stride/strʌɪd/

▶verb (past strode; past part. stridden)

• 1 walk with long, decisive steps.

• 2 (stride across/over) cross (an obstacle) with one long step.

• 3 literary bestride.

▶noun

• 1 a long, decisive step.

  ■ the length of a step or manner of taking steps.

• 2 a step in progress towards an aim.

  ■ (one's stride) a good or regular rate of progress, especially after a slow start.

• 3 (strides) Brit. informal trousers.

• 4 [as modifier] denoting a rhythmic style of jazz piano playing in which the left hand alternately plays single bass notes on the downbeat and chords an octave higher on the upbeat.

– phrases
take something in one's stride (US also take something in stride) deal with something difficult in a calm way.

– derivatives
strider noun.

– origin OE stride (n.) ‘single long step’, strīdan (v.) ‘stand or walk with the legs wide apart’, prob. from a Gmc base meaning ‘strive, quarrel’.