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Lope vs Promenade - What's the difference?

lope | promenade | Related terms |

Lope is a related term of promenade.


As a proper noun lope

is .

As a noun promenade is

.

lope

English

Verb

(lop)
  • (obsolete) To jump, leap.
  • *, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
  • *: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
  • *Middleton
  • *:He that lopes on the ropes.
  • To travel an easy pace with long strides.
  • :He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
  • References

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    promenade

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A prom (dance).
  • A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
  • A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise.
  • * 1900 , (Sigmund Freud), (The Interpretation of Dreams)'', '' , (translated by (James Strachey)) pg. 235:
  • The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
  • A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
  • Synonyms

    * (a place to walk) esplanade

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To walk.
  • To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.
  • Derived terms

    * promenader (agent noun)