bide

See also: bidé, bidè, bidê, bidę, bídě, and Bide

English

WOTD – 15 September 2008

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /baɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

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

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
   • c. 1570, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes:

     And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt

2. (transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     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.

3. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
   • 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, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.

   • 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 254:

     John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.

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

     And thither wending there that night they bode.

   • 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:

     "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."

   • 1913, Fred E. Weatherly, Danny Boy:

     It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.

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

Usage notes

• The verb has been replaced by abide in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression bide one's time.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bide.

Synonyms

• (to bear): put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to dwell or reside in a location): live; See also Thesaurus:reside
• (to wait): stand by; See also Thesaurus:wait
• (to wait for): await; See also Thesaurus:wait for

Derived terms

• abide
• bide one's time
• bide tryst
• overbide
• unbidable

 

Related terms

• bid
• faith
• fidelity

Translations

(intransitive) (archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain

• Bulgarian: ча́кам (bg) (čákam), изча́квам (bg) (izčákvam), оста́вам (bg) (ostávam)
• Czech: čekat (cs) impf, vyčkávat impf
• Finnish: vartoa (fi)
• Korean: 때를 기다리다 (ttaereul gidarida)
• Russian: ждать (ru) (ždatʹ), ожида́ть (ru) (ožidátʹ)
• Swedish: bida (sv)

To dwell or reside

• Czech: prodlévat impf, dlít impf

Anagrams

• Bedi, EBID, dieb

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bide/ [bi.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: bi‧de

Etymology 1

Noun

bide inan

1. path, track, way
2. way, manner, method, procedure
3. journey
4. line

Declension

Declension of bide (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	bide	bidea	bideak
ergative	bidek	bideak	bideek
dative	bideri	bideari	bideei
genitive	bideren	bidearen	bideen
comitative	biderekin	bidearekin	bideekin
causative	biderengatik	bidearengatik	bideengatik
benefactive	biderentzat	bidearentzat	bideentzat
instrumental	bidez	bideaz	bideez
inessive	bidetan	bidean	bideetan
locative	bidetako	bideko	bideetako
allative	bidetara	bidera	bideetara
terminative	bidetaraino	bideraino	bideetaraino
directive	bidetarantz	biderantz	bideetarantz
destinative	bidetarako	biderako	bideetarako
ablative	bidetatik	bidetik	bideetatik
partitive	biderik	—	—
prolative	bidetzat	—	—

Derived terms

• bidea galdu
• bideari lotu
• bide eman
• labur bide

Etymology 2

Particle

bide

1. apparently, seemingly

   Galdu bide gara. ― It seems like we're lost.

Further reading

• “bide”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “bide”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish bitæ, from Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną, cognate with English bite, German bissen, Dutch bijten. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), cf. Latin findō (“to cleave”), fissiō (“breaking up”) (hence fission).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥iːðə]
• Rhymes: -iːdə

Verb

bide (imperative bid, infinitive at bide, present tense bider, past tense bed, perfect tense har bidt)

1. bite (to cut off a piece by clamping the teeth)

Conjugation

Inflection of bide

	present	past
simple	bider	bed
perfect	har bidt	havde bidt
passive	bides	—
participle	bidende	bidt
imperative	bid	—
infinitive	bide	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	biden	—

French

Etymology

From bidon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bid/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bide m (plural bides)

1. fiasco, flop
2. (colloquial) paunch, belly
3. (uncountable) Something fake

Synonyms

• (fiasco): fiasco, flop, four
• (belly): bedaine, brioche, panse
• (something fake): bidon

Derived terms

• faire un bide

Further reading

• “bide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Japanese

Romanization

bide

1. Rōmaji transcription of ビデ

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide or bideer, definite plural bidea or bideene)

1. alternative spelling of bidé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bíða.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²biː.də/

Verb

bide (present tense bid, past tense beid, supine bide, past participle biden, present participle bidande, imperative bid)

1. (intransitive) to exist

   Synonym: vere til

Etymology 2

From French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈdeː/

Noun

bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide, definite plural bidea)

1. alternative spelling of bidé

References

• “bide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• bidé, bedi, beid

Old English

Verb

bīde

1. inflection of bīdan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Scots

Etymology

From Old English bīdan, from Proto-Germanic.

Verb

bide

1. to dwell, to live

   Tae bide somewhaur: to dwell somewhere.

   Tae bide: to dwell.

   Whaur dae ye bide?: where do you live?

2. to stay, to remain

   "Bide and fecht!" (traditional Scots phrase meaning "Stay and fight!")

Derived terms

bydand

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǐdeː/
• Hyphenation: bi‧de

Noun

bìdē m (Cyrillic spelling бѝде̄)

1. bidet

Declension

Declension of bide

	singular	plural
nominative	bìdē	bidèi
genitive	bidèa	bidéā
dative	bideu	bideima
accusative	bide	bidee
vocative	bideu / bidee	bidei
locative	bideu	bideima
instrumental	bideom	bideima

References

• “bide”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024