gallop

1. 1.

   a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously

   Broadergait

Other forms of gallop

plural

gallops·

past tense

gallopped·

present participle

gallopping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gallop

What does gallop mean?

gallop means "ride at a galloping pace". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gallop?

gallop has 2 syllables: gal-lop. The stress falls on "gal". In IPA it is /ˈɡæləp/.

What is another word for gallop?

Close synonyms include extend. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gallop a common word?

gallop is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gallop?

1 word rhymes with gallop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.