bid

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), 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.

Verb

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.
2. (transitive) To invite; to summon.
3. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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.

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.

2. (transitive) To offer as a price.

3. (intransitive) To make an attempt.

4. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
5. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
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!

Derived terms

• forbid
• misbid

Translations

Noun

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.
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."

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• DBI, DIB, Dib, IBD, IDB, dib

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bidden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bət/, [bət]

Verb

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

1. to pray

References

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

Cimbrian

Etymology

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

Noun

bid m (plural biddar, diminutive biddale)

1. (Sette Comuni) wicker, osier

Declension

References

• “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

Danish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ið]
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bid n (singular definite biddet, plural indefinite bid)

1. bite (act of biting)

Inflection

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ið]

Noun

bid c (singular definite bidden, plural indefinite bidder)

1. bit, morsel
2. bite, mouthful

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥iˀð], [ˈb̥iðˀ]

Verb

bid

1. imperative of bide

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bid

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

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bith

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʲiðʲ]

Verb

bid

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

Noun

bid

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

Mutation

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bid f

1. genitive plural of bida

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bid]

Noun

bid (nominative plural bids)

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

Declension

Synonyms

• sot

Derived terms

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

bid

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

Synonyms

• bydded
• boed

Mutation

Zhuang

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. cicada

   Synonyms: (dialectal) biqrengh, (dialectal) nengzceq