verb [VN]
1 to sit or stand with one of your legs on either side of sb/sth:
He swung his leg over the motorcycle, straddling it easily.
2 to cross, or exist on both sides of, a river, a road or an area of land:
The mountains straddle the French-Swiss border.
3 to exist within, or include, different periods of time, activities or groups of people:
a writer who straddles two cultures
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for straddle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does straddle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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