bidden

Verb (1)

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

1. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
   • He bade me come in.
2. (transitive) To invite; to summon.
   • She was bidden to the wedding.
3. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
   • 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; […]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]...
4. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
   • All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (2)

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; to tender.
   • She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.

See all 15 meanings of bid

Verb

bide (third-person singular simple present bides, present participle biding, simple past bode or bided, past participle bided or bidden)

1. (dialectal, transitive) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
   • And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the bruntc. 1570, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes

   Synonyms:

   put up with

2. (archaic, transitive) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
   • Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
3. (archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
   • All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...

   Synonyms:

   live

4. (archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
   • And thither wending there that night they bode.1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 168

   Synonyms:

   stand by

5. (archaic, transitive) To wait for; to await.

   Synonyms:

   await

See all 6 meanings of bide