bid

• IPA^(key): /bɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below).

Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.

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

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

   He bade me come in.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:

     Shylock: [...] Why Jessica, I say!
     Launcelot: Why, Jessica!
     Shylock: Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.
     Launcelot: Your worship was wont to tell me that I could do nothing without bidding.

2. (transitive) To invite; to summon.

   She was bidden to the wedding.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:

     Jessica: Call you? What is your will?
     Shylock: I am bid forth to supper, Jessica: / [...] But wherefore should I go? / I am not bid for love; they flatter me;

   • 1970, King Crimson (lyrics and music), “Cirkus (including "Entry of the Chameleons")”, in Lizard:

     In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster, / Bid me join the parade

3. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Portia: If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I / can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his / approach; […]

   • 1960 November, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 691:

     The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.

The inflected forms bade, bad, and bidden are becoming less common (outside certain set phrases like “bade farewell”) than uninflected bid.[1]

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

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 Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

6. (transitive, intransitive, trucking) To take a particular route regularly.

   I can't believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!

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”, in 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 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 16:

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

4. (trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.

   I can't stand this new bid I'm on, even if the mileage is better.

5. (prison slang) A prison sentence.
   • 2007, Psych (TV series):

     "So we 'lawyered up'. That's how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid."

• DBI, DIB, Dib, IBD, IDB, dib

From Dutch bidden.

• IPA^(key): /bət/, [bət]

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bid (present bid, present participle biddende, past participle gebid)

1. to pray

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Related to German Weide (“willow; wicker”).

bid m (plural biddar, diminutive biddale)

1. (Sette Comuni) wicker, osier

• “bid” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Old Norse bit n, from Proto-Germanic *bitą. Derived from the verb *bītaną (“to bite”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ið]
• Rhymes: -id

bid n (singular definite biddet, plural indefinite bid)

1. bite (act of biting)

From Old Norse biti m, from Proto-Germanic *bitô, cognate with German Bissen. Derived from the verb *bītaną (“to bite”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ið]

bid c (singular definite bidden, plural indefinite bidder)

1. bit, morsel
2. bite, mouthful

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥iˀð], [ˈb̥iðˀ]

bid

1. imperative of bide

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bid

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

• bith

• IPA^(key): [bʲiðʲ]

bid

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

bid

1. accusative/dative singular of buith (“being”)

• IPA^(key): /bit/
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: bid
• Homophones: Bid, bit

bid f

1. genitive plural of bida

• IPA^(key): [bid]

bid (nominative plural bids)

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

• sot

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

• IPA^(key): /biːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

bid

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

• bydded
• boed

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pit˧/
• Tone numbers: bid⁸
• Hyphenation: bid

bid (Sawndip forms 䖩 or 𧏻, 1957–1982 spelling bid)

1. cicada

   Synonyms: (dialectal) biqrengh, (dialectal) nengzceq