Refine this word faster

Stronger alternatives Opposite tone Use in context Cross-language nuance

Lope

//loʊp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An easy pace with long strides.

    "Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]"

  2. 2
    a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop wordnet
  3. 3
    a slow pace of running wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To travel an easy pace with long strides.

    "He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground."

  2. 2
    run easily wordnet
  3. 3
    To jump, leap. intransitive, obsolete

    "And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From 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.

Etymology 2

From 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.

See also for "lope"

Synonyms Antonyms Rhymes Sentences Translate Word Type Pronunciation Word Forms

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciation

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: lope