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Baidu

/baɪˈduː/

Baidu proper noun: a mainland China search engine owned by the company of the same name.

Proper noun

Baidu

  1. A mainland China search engine owned by the company of the same name.
    • Most of us spend a lot of time using search engines. And the ones we summon most often are Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing, at least in the United States. If you're in China, chances are you search using Baidu.2014, Edward C. Baig, Bob LeVitus, iPad mini For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 80

Verb

Baidu (third-person singular simple present Baidus, present participle Baiduing, simple past and past participle Baidued)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Baidu search engine.
    • To ground my assumption in facts, I “googled” and “baidued” the major Baidu events in 2008 and 2009.2011, Xiaoli Li, 期待ing: From Globalization to Glocalization (dissertation), Clemson University, page 105
    • This generally involves students reading the text for the main idea of the text, consulting print dictionary or online dictionary or Googling /Baiduing (one of the most popular searching engine in China) for difficult words, phrases, expression and sentence structure and figure out how they should...2012, Chen Yan, Jiang Yuhong, “Integration of ICTs into subject teaching in pre-service English teacher education”, in 2012 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education...

Baidu meaning in Vietnamese

Baidu in Vietnamese

search engine
Bách Độ, Baidu

Examples of Baidu in a sentence

  • P.S, did some baiduing, found your cool dictator book2014 July 11, fjrp2, “Car destroyed by ukrainian artillery.”, in alt.politics.international (Usenet):
  • From May 6, 2014 I read online English news by Googling news of “Alibaba IPO.” Simultaneously, I read online Chinese news by Baiduing news of “Alibaba IPO.”2016, Shuwen Li, Ethos as Dwelling: The Construction of Corporate Ethos in an IPO (dissertation), University of Minnesota, page 61:

Forms of Baidu

third-person singular presentBaidus
present participleBaiduing
past participleBaidued
pastBaidued

Origin of Baidu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).

Questions about Baidu

What does Baidu mean?
Baidu means a mainland China search engine owned by the company of the same name.
What is Baidu in Vietnamese?
Baidu in Vietnamese is Bách Độ, Baidu. See Baidu meaning in Vietnamese.
How do you use Baidu in a sentence?
P.S, did some baiduing, found your cool dictator book
What part of speech is Baidu?
Baidu can be a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce Baidu?
Baidu is pronounced /baɪˈduː/.

Words near Baidu in the dictionary

  1. baidar
  2. baidarka
  3. baidarkas
  4. baidars
  5. Baides
  6. Baidu
  7. Baidued
  8. Baiduing
  9. Baidus
  10. baidya
  11. baidyas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Baidu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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