RIDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rider mean? 

• RIDER (noun)
  The noun RIDER has 4 senses:

1. a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)

2. a clause that is appended to a legislative bill

3. a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)

4. a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it

  Familiarity information: RIDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("rider" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rider"):

hang glider (a rider of a hang glider)

equestrian; horseback rider; horseman (a man skilled in equitation)

pedaler; pedaller (a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle))

Derivation:

ride (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A clause that is appended to a legislative bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rider" is a kind of...):

article; clause (a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will))

Holonyms ("rider" is a part of...):

bill; measure (a statute in draft before it becomes law)

legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("rider" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Derivation:

ride (sit on and control a vehicle)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

passenger; rider

Hypernyms ("rider" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Domain category:

railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

autobus; bus; charabanc; coach; double-decker; jitney; motorbus; motorcoach; omnibus; passenger vehicle (a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport)

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rider"):

commuter (someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city)

fare (a paying (taxi) passenger)

hitchhiker (a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles)

stowaway (a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage)

straphanger (a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support)

Derivation:

ride (be carried or travel on or in a vehicle)

 Context examples 

We ran round, and there lay the unfortunate rider.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So fierce was their meeting that their spears shivered up to the very grasp, and the horses reared backwards until it seemed that they must crash down upon their riders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rider tried to save him, but in vain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A very decent shot, and there is not a bolder rider in England.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The horse followed,—a tall steed, and on its back a rider.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“A bold rider, the best pistol-shot in England, but . . . a dangerous man!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first time occurred when the master was trying to teach a spirited thoroughbred the method of opening and closing gates without the rider's dismounting.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The horse that fell was strained in the left shoulder, but the rider got no hurt; and I repaired my handkerchief as well as I could: however, I would not trust to the strength of it any more, in such dangerous enterprises.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn't any gentleman such-like as yourself, squire, to show some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form; another put in a rider that the thirst then generated was such that even the time which had elapsed had not completely allayed it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Another told him that he had found a cloak which rendered its wearer invisible; and the third had caught a horse which would carry its rider over any obstacle, and even up the glass mountain.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)