Ryder Definition

rīdər
pronoun

An occupational surname for a rider, cavalryman, or knight.

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A male given name, modern transferred use of the surname.
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noun

(obsolete) A clause added to a document; a rider.

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(obsolete) A gold coin of Zealand (Netherlands) worth 14 florins.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Other Word Forms of Ryder

Noun

Singular:
Ryder
Plural:
ryders

Origin of Ryder

  • Dutch rijder, properly, a rider.

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Ryder Sentence Examples

  • Bucknell was in Pennsylvania, and Ryder College, where Jen attended, in New Jersey.

  • Jen, the valedictorian of her class, was to attend Ryder College in New Jersey and major in English Literature.

  • In 1874, while captain of the "Audacious," he served for three years as flag-captain to viceadmiral Ryder in China; and finally he was appointed, in 1880, to command the "Thunderer" in the Mediterranean.

  • These fjords are very deep; the greatest depth found by Ryder in Scoresby Sound was 300 fathoms, but there are certainly still greater depths; like the Norwegian fjords they have, however, probably all of them, a threshold or sill, with shallow water, near their mouths.

  • Steenstrup during several years, Captain Hammer in 1879-1880, Captain Ryder in 1886-1887, Dr Drygalski in 1891-1893, 2 and several American expeditions in later years, all examined the question closely.

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