lope
To travel an easy pace with long stridesTo travel an easy pace with long strides.
» Lopes worries about his mother, who lives in Boston and lacks health insurance.
Meaning
2 sensesTo travel an easy pace with long strides.
He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
leicht galoppieren, kantern, eilen
размашисто идтиrazmašisto idti
(intransitive, obsolete)To jump, leap.
1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy he that lopes on the ropes
- run easily
Examples
2 sentencesLopes worries about his mother, who lives in Boston and lacks health insurance.
Fernão Lopes was a Portuguese historian.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate withFrom Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.
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Forms
lopes, loping, loped, lopedWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle