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bide

UK/baɪd/

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Northumbria/bɛɪd/

bide verb: to bear; to endure; to tolerate.

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...
    • But Sir Thomas Kennedy bode little about his house in Maybole, chiefly because his lads and lasses loved most to remain at Culzean, where the cliffs are and the sea spreads wide, clattering pleasantly on the rocks, and with the birds blithely swirling and diving about it all the year round.1896, S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett, “The Adventure of the Garden”, in The Grey Man, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, page 101
    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
    • "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 252
    Synonyms:
    stand by
  5. (archaic, transitive) To wait for; to await.
    Synonyms:
    await

Proper noun capitalized: Bide

Bide

  1. A surname.

bide meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

bide in Urdu

انتظار کرنا, برداشت کرنا

bide in Bengali

অপেক্ষা করা, সহ্য করা

bide in Malayalam

പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുക, സഹിക്കുക, താമസിക്കുക

bide in Kannada

ತಾಳು, ಉಳಿ, ಸೈರಿಸು, ಸಹಿಸು, ಸಹನೆಯಿಂದಿರು, ಪಾಲಿಸು

Examples of bide in a sentence

  • I hung the coat in the cupboard and bided my time.
  • An unaspected planet bides its time and then emerges, often explosively and seemingly out of character.
  • Zecond thing: what 'st think volk 'ud want to bide and hark to such vlother vor!

All 18 example sentences with bide

Synonyms of bide

Forms of bide

third-person singular presentbides
present participlebiding
pastbode
pastbided
past participlebided
past participlebidden

Origin of bide

From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity. Cognates Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese and Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”).

Words formed from bide

Words that rhyme with bide

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Questions about bide

What does bide mean?
Bide means to bear; to endure; to tolerate.
What is bide in Urdu?
Bide in Urdu is انتظار کرنا, برداشت کرنا. See Bide meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bide?
Bide can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bide?
Bide is pronounced /baɪd/ (UK).
What is the past tense of bide?
The past tense of bide is bode.

Words near bide in the dictionary

  1. Biddon
  2. Biddulph
  3. biddy
  4. biddy-bid
  5. biddy-biddy
  6. bide
  7. bide one's time
  8. bide tryst
  9. bideauxite
  10. bided
  11. bided one's time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bide (page history and authors); Bide (page history and authors); bide (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bide (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bide (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bide (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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