lope
pronunciation
How to pronounce lope in British English:
UK [ləʊp]
How to pronounce lope in American English:
US [loʊp]
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- Noun:
- a slow pace of running
- a smooth 3-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
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- Verb:
- run easily
Word Origin
- lope
- lope: see leap
- lope (v.)
- "to run with long strides," early 15c.; earlier "to leap, jump, spring" (c. 1300), from Old Norse hlaupa "to run, leap," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan (see leap (v.)). Related: Loped; loping. The noun meaning "a jump, a leap" is from late 14c.; sense of "long, bounding stride" is from 1809.
Example
- 1. The deer went off at an easy lope .
- 2. The dog started to lope alongside my car .
- 3. He gave me this lope sided grin that made my legs turn into jelly .
- 4. The hares and rabbits lope away .
- 5. Met with javier bardem and pen lope cruz .