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bidings

bidings is the plural of biding.

Meaning of biding

Noun

biding (plural bidings)

  1. An awaiting; expectation.
    • I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.2007, Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand
  2. (archaic) 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

Questions about bidings

What is bidings the plural of?
Bidings is the plural of biding.

Words near bidings in the dictionary

  1. bidimensionally
  2. bidiminished
  3. biding
  4. biding one's time
  5. biding tryst
  6. bidings
  7. bidirected
  8. bidirectional
  9. bidirectionalities
  10. bidirectionality
  11. bidirectionalize

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