biding
/ˈbaɪdɪŋ/
biding noun: an awaiting; expectation. Also the present participle and gerund of bide.
Noun
biding (plural bidings)
- An awaiting; expectation.
- I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.2007, Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand
- Residence; habitation.
- For they brought us to their bidings about two miles from the harborough, where wee saw their women and lodging, which is nothing but the skin of some beast layd upon the ground : and over them in stead of houses, is nothing but five or sixe sticks layd acrosse, which stand upon two forkes with...1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, volume XI, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, published 1904, page 307
- A moſt poore man, made tame to Fortunes blows
Who, by the Art of knowne, and feeling ſorrowes,
Am pregnant to good pity. Giue me your hand,
Ile lead you to ſome biding.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
Also used as
biding is also the present participle and gerund of bide.
Forms of biding
| plural | bidings |
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Origin of biding
From Middle English biding, bydyng, equivalent to bide + -ing.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Phrases with biding
Words that rhyme with biding
- riding
- confiding
- abiding
- gliding
- guiding
- hiding
- paragliding
- sliding
- striding
- backsliding
- bestriding
- betiding
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- blindsiding
- briding
- broadsiding
- chiding
- coinciding
- colliding
- coresiding
- deciding
- deriding
- disciding
- dividing
- eliding
- griding
- hagriding
- joyriding
- misguiding
- niding
- nondividing
- outriding
- overriding
- overstriding
- peroxiding
- presiding
- priding
- providing
- redeciding
- redividing
- residing
- siding
- subsiding
- suiciding
Questions about biding
- What does biding mean?
- Biding means an awaiting; expectation.
- What part of speech is biding?
- Biding is a noun.
- How do you pronounce biding?
- Biding is pronounced /ˈbaɪdɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of biding?
- The plural of biding is bidings.
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