bid

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[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English verb biddan ‘ask, demand’. Conflation from Old English verb bēodan ‘offer, announce’

[edit] Verb

bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past bade, past participle 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.
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[edit] Translations
to issue a command
to invite
to utter a greeting or salutation

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old English verb bēodan (“offer, announce”). Conflation from Old English verb biddan (“ask, demand”).

[edit] Verb

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. (intransitive, card games) To announce one's goal, before starting play.
  5. (transitive, card games) To announce one's goal, before starting play.
  6. (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.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
intransitive: to make an offer
intransitive: to announce goal
transitive: to offer as a price
transitive: to announce goal

[edit] Noun

bid (plural bids)

  1. An offer at an auction.
    His bid was $35,000.
  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.
[edit] Derived terms
Derived terms
[edit] Translations
offer at an auction
  • Albanian: please add this translation if you can
  • Arabic: عرض (ar) (3arD) m., عطاء (ar) (3aTaa') m.
    Egyptian Arabic: please add this translation if you can
  • Armenian: please add this translation if you can
  • Bulgarian: оферта (bg) (oferta) f.
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 出價 (cmn), 出价 (cmn) (chūjià)
  • Czech: please add this translation if you can
  • Danish: bud (da)
  • Dutch: bod (nl) n.
  • Finnish: tarjous (fi)
  • French: enchère (fr) f.
  • German: Gebot (de) n.
  • Greek: προσφορά (el) (prosforá) f.
  • Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
  • Hindi: please add this translation if you can
  • Italian: offerta (it) f.
  • Japanese: 付け値 (ja) (つけね, tsukene)
  • Korean: please add this translation if you can
  • Maltese: please add this translation if you can
missed frisbee pass

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Norse bit.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bid/, [b̥ið]

[edit] Noun

bid n. (singular definite biddet, plural indefinite bid)

  1. bite (act of biting)
[edit] Inflection
    Inflection of bid
neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative bid biddet bid biddene
genitive bids biddets bids biddenes

[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bid/, [b̥ið]

[edit] Noun

bid c. (singular definite bidden, plural indefinite bidder)

  1. bit, morsel
  2. bite, mouthful
[edit] Inflection
    Inflection of bid
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative bid bidden bidder bidderne
genitive bids biddens bidders biddernes

[edit] Etymology 3

See bide.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /biːd/, [b̥iðˀ]

[edit] Verb

bid

  1. imperative of bide

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Verb

bid

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

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[edit] Noun

bid (plural bids)

  1. sort; kind; type
  2. race

[edit] Declension

declension of bid
singular plural
nominative bid bids
genitive bida bidas
dative bide bides
accusative bidi bidis
predicative bidu bidus
vocative o bid! o bids!

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