ide
/aɪd/
ide noun: a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
Noun (1)
ide (plural ides)
- A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
- a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVII
- Synonyms:
- orfe, silver orfe
Noun (2) capitalized: IDE
IDE (countable and uncountable, plural IDEs)
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Proper noun capitalized: Ide
Ide
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, named after Saint Ida (OS grid ref SX8990).
Contraction capitalized: Ide
Ide
- Obsolete form of I'd.
- Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]1605, The Trial of Chivalry, (a play of uncertain unauthorship)
Synonyms of ide
- orfe
- silver orfe
Forms of ide
| plural | ides |
|---|---|
| alternative form | id |
| plural | IDEs |
Origin of ide
Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.
From the medieval male (and less often female) given name Ida.
Phrases with ide
Words that rhyme with ide
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- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
Questions about ide
- What does ide mean?
- Ide means a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
- What part of speech is ide?
- Ide can be a noun, a proper noun or a contraction.
- How do you pronounce ide?
- Ide is pronounced /aɪd/.
- What is the plural of ide?
- The plural of ide is ides.
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Source and license
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