bid

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PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English bidden, from the Old English verb biddan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with the Old English verb bēodan ‘offer, announce’ (see Etymology 2 below). Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden, German bitten, Danish bede.

VerbEdit

bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past bid or bade, past participle bid or bidden)

1. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.

   He bade me to come in.

2. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to offer.

   She was bidden to the wedding.

3. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.

   We bade him farewell.

   • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 15 (2001 Perennial Edition).

     [H]e walked up to the village of Wall and bade good morning to the guards on the gate.

Usage notesEdit

The inflected forms bade and bidden are archaic. They remain in marginal use, particularly regarding greetings, as in “bade farewell”, but uninflected bid is significantly more common, and bidden is especially rare.^[1]

Derived termsEdit

• bid adieu
• bid fair
• forbid

TranslationsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English beden, from the Old English verb bēodan (“offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with the Old English verb biddan (“ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde.

VerbEdit

bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past and past participle bid)

1. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.

   Have you ever bid in an auction?

2. (transitive) To offer as a price.

   She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.

3. (intransitive) To make an attempt.

   He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.

4. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
5. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
   • 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:

     All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.

Derived termsEdit

• bid one's time

TranslationsEdit

NounEdit

bid (plural bids)

1. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.

   His bid was $35,000.

   a bid for a lucrative transport contract

2. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.

   Nice bid!

3. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

   Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.

   She put in her bid for the presidency.

   He put in his bid for office.

   • 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, BBC Sport:

     Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.

   • 1967, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553025171, page 16:

     [Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

1. ^ “Bid, bade, bidden”, Grammarist

AnagramsEdit

• dib
• IBD

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Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse bit.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bid/, [b̥ið]

NounEdit

bid n (singular definite biddet, plural indefinite bid)

1. bite (act of biting)

InflectionEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle Low German bīt, replacing a two-syllable form biti.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bid/, [b̥ið]

NounEdit

bid c (singular definite bidden, plural indefinite bidder)

1. bit, morsel
2. bite, mouthful

InflectionEdit

Etymology 3Edit

See bide.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /biːd/, [b̥iðˀ]

VerbEdit

bid

1. Imperative of bide.

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VerbEdit

bid

1. first-person singular present indicative of bidden
2. imperative of bidden

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RafsiEdit

bid

1. rafsi of bindo.

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Alternative formsEdit

• bith

VerbEdit

bid

1. third-person singular past subjunctive of is
2. third-person singular future of is

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PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [bid]

NounEdit

bid (plural bids)

1. (taxonomy) genus
2. sort; kind; type
3. race

DeclensionEdit

SynonymsEdit

• sot

Derived termsEdit

• bidäd
• bidädik
• bidanem
• bidik
• filigabid
• garidabid
• hügien bidädik
• kaktudabid
• menabid
• menabidädahet
• menabidädakomip
• menabidädihet
• nimabid
• planabid
• vödabid

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VerbEdit

bid

1. (literary) third-person singular imperative of bod

SynonymsEdit

• bydded
• boed

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bid	fid	mid	unchanged