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lope.

To travel an easy pace with long strides.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ləʊp/UK/loʊp/US
  1. To travel an easy pace with long strides.

    He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
  2. To jump, leap.

    intransitive · obsolete
Where this word comes from

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.

noun/ləʊp/UK/loʊp/US
  1. An easy pace with long strides.

Where this word comes from

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.

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