"outrider" meaning in All languages combined

See outrider on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: outriders [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English outridere. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|outridere}} Middle English outridere Head templates: {{en-noun}} outrider (plural outriders)
  1. A guide or escort, especially one who rides in advance.
    Sense id: en-outrider-en-noun-4RWt-iW4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 43 15
  2. One who rides out on horseback to inspect a ranch etc.
    Sense id: en-outrider-en-noun-oIltsTnW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 43 15
  3. (figurative) A forerunner. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: precursor, harbinger, trailblazer
    Sense id: en-outrider-en-noun-8QkEL4TY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 43 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: outriding, vanguard

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for outrider meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "outridere"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English outridere",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English outridere.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outriders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "outrider (plural outriders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "outriding"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "vanguard"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 43 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 91",
          "text": "Then they went from farmhouse to farmhouse, two little girls walking at the head of the procession as bridesmaids, and six or eight outriders galloping ahead on hobby-horses to announce their coming.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A guide or escort, especially one who rides in advance."
      ],
      "id": "en-outrider-en-noun-4RWt-iW4",
      "links": [
        [
          "guide",
          "guide"
        ],
        [
          "escort",
          "escort"
        ],
        [
          "ride",
          "ride"
        ],
        [
          "advance",
          "advance"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 43 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who rides out on horseback to inspect a ranch etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-outrider-en-noun-oIltsTnW",
      "links": [
        [
          "horseback",
          "horseback"
        ],
        [
          "ranch",
          "ranch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 43 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 November 2, “Outrider for a new project”, in BBC News",
          "text": "The Winchester MP is something of an outrider for a new project now: moving his party into the space vacated by the Conservative shift to the right under Iain Duncan Smith.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A forerunner."
      ],
      "id": "en-outrider-en-noun-8QkEL4TY",
      "links": [
        [
          "forerunner",
          "forerunner"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) A forerunner."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "precursor"
        },
        {
          "word": "harbinger"
        },
        {
          "word": "trailblazer"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "outrider"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "outridere"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English outridere",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English outridere.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outriders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "outrider (plural outriders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "outriding"
    },
    {
      "word": "vanguard"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 91",
          "text": "Then they went from farmhouse to farmhouse, two little girls walking at the head of the procession as bridesmaids, and six or eight outriders galloping ahead on hobby-horses to announce their coming.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A guide or escort, especially one who rides in advance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "guide",
          "guide"
        ],
        [
          "escort",
          "escort"
        ],
        [
          "ride",
          "ride"
        ],
        [
          "advance",
          "advance"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who rides out on horseback to inspect a ranch etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "horseback",
          "horseback"
        ],
        [
          "ranch",
          "ranch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 November 2, “Outrider for a new project”, in BBC News",
          "text": "The Winchester MP is something of an outrider for a new project now: moving his party into the space vacated by the Conservative shift to the right under Iain Duncan Smith.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A forerunner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "forerunner",
          "forerunner"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) A forerunner."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "precursor"
        },
        {
          "word": "harbinger"
        },
        {
          "word": "trailblazer"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "outrider"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.