BD

See also: B & D, bd, Bd, Bd., .bd, bd., b/d, and B/D

Translingual

Symbol

BD

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Bangladesh.

   Synonym: BGD (alpha-3)

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English

Etymology 1

Initialisms.

Noun

BD (countable and uncountable, plural BDs)

1. Initialism of Blu-ray Disc.
2. Initialism of Bachelor of Divinity.

   Synonym: BDiv

3. (military) Initialism of battledress.
4. (medicine) Initialism of Behçet's disease.
5. (medicine) Initialism of bipolar disorder.
6. (medicine) Initialism of Bowen's disease.
7. Initialism of biographical dictionary.
8. (handbells) Initialism of brush damp.
9. Initialism of business development.
10. (BDSM) Initialism of bondage and discipline.

    Synonyms: B and D, B & D, B/D

11. (finance) Initialism of broker-dealer.

See also

• (Blu-ray Disc): HD-DVD, DVD, SVCD, VCD, CDDV, LD

Proper noun

BD

1. Initialism of Building Design: a British architectural magazine founded in 1970.
2. (Egyptology) Initialism of Book of the Dead.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French BD.

Noun

BD (plural BDs)

1. (borrowed) Comics.

Etymology 3

Initialism of baby dance.

Noun

BD (plural BDs)

1. (colloquial, originally and chiefly Internet slang) An act of sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.

Usage notes

The term is chiefly used in online forums relating to fertility and pregnancy.

Verb

BD (third-person singular simple present BDs, present participle BDing, simple past and past participle BDed or BD'd)

1. (colloquial, originally and chiefly Internet slang) To have sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.
   • 1997 July 15, “I Need Advice on Temps!”, in misc.kids.pregnancy, Usenet:

     We haven't BD since day 21 (we had already BD 11 times in past 2 weeks).

   • 2012, Jean M. Twenge, Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant, New York: Atria Paperback, published 2016, →ISBN, page 165:

     Temperature is up. That means I ovulated yesterday, so I can figure out how well we did this cycle. Hmmm, BD’d two days before ovulation and the day of. That’s pretty good.

Usage notes

The term is chiefly used in online forums relating to fertility and pregnancy.

References

• “BD, v.” under “B, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Anagrams

• DB

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French

Etymology

Acronym for bande dessinée

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.de/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

BD f (plural BD)

1. comic strip

   Synonym: bédé

Further reading

• “BD”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Japanese

Etymology

Derived from English Blu-ray Disc.

Noun

BD(ブルーレイ) • (burūrei) 

1. Abbreviation of ブルーレイ (burūrei, “Blu-ray Disc”).

   BD(ブルーレイ)付(つき)

   burūrei-tsuki

   includes Blu-Ray disc