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What (who) is Bestride - definition
bestride
v. a.
1.
Straddle, stride over.
2.
Ride astraddle upon.
3.
Bespan, arch over.
4.
Overrule, rule over, dominate, overmaster, control, weigh upon, overawe.
bestride
(bestrides, bestriding, bestrode, bestridden)
To bestride something means to be the most powerful and important person or thing in it. (LITERARY)
America's media companies bestride the globe.
VERB: V n
Examples of use of Bestride
1. Typically English men and women – dumpy, sweating, middle–aged – bestride a typically English scene.
2. Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus bestride our heritage÷ would young Will have writ so well were not Kit at his heels?
3. At the river‘s edge rises an enormous block of red brick topped by a monstrous square tower which seems to bestride the picturesque roofs and timbered houses of Shakespeare‘s town like a brutal modern Colossus.
4. His exit from high office, also over Iraq, saw him bitterly oppose the government‘s decision to take the country to war against Saddam Hussain in the Commons, again underlining his capacity to bestride the chamber.
5. His exit from high office, also over Iraq – he bitterly opposed the Labour government‘s decision to take the country to war against Saddam Hussein – again underlined his capacity to bestride the chamber.