noun
Meaning 1
An easy pace with long strides.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lope
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ləʊp/
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US: /loʊp/
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rhymes with -əʊp
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homophone: Lop
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CMU ARPABET: L OW1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To travel an easy pace with long strides.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To jump, leap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
Examples
- 1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy he that lopes on the ropes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: canter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gait
noun
Meaning 5
a slow pace of running
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jog, trot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: locomotion, travel
Narrower terms: dogtrot
verb
Meaning 6
run easily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: run
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Kanter — easy pace with long strides
- German: leichter Galopp — easy pace with long strides
- Czech: klusat — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- Finnish: harppoa — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- French: courir en bondissant — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- German: leicht galoppieren — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- German: kantern — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- German: eilen — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- German: springend rennen — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- Italian: procedere a lunghi salti — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- Russian: размашисто идти (razmašisto idti) — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- Spanish: correr a paso largo — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- Spanish: trotar a zancadas — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- Spanish: andar a zancajadas — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- Spanish: caminar a trancos — to travel an easy pace with long strides
- Spanish: ambular a trancadas — to travel an easy pace with long strides