gait

Pronunciation: /ɡeɪt/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
  2. noun a horse's manner of moving
  3. noun a person's manner of walking

Etymology

From a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, street, journey”), from Middle English gate (“way, path, road, street”), from Old Norse gata (“path, lane, alley, road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“passageway, street”). Doublet of gate.

In classic literature

Synonyms

pace

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
rate
Narrower (hyponyms)
quick time, double time

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