Bid Definition

bĭd
bade, bidden, bidding, bids
verb
bade, bidden, bidding, bids
To offer or propose (an amount) as a price.
American Heritage
To beseech or implore.
Webster's New World
To make a bid.
Webster's New World
To auction (a contract).
The city will bid the project next summer.
American Heritage
To command, ask, or tell.
Do as you are bidden.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
bids
An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something.
Made a bid on the antique desk.
American Heritage
A bidding of an amount.
Webster's New World
The amount offered or proposed.
The highest bid at the auction was $5,000.
American Heritage
The amount bid.
Webster's New World
An invitation, especially one offering membership in a group or club.
American Heritage
abbreviation
Bachelor of Industrial Design.
American Heritage

(medicine) Bis in die: twice a day, two times per day.

Wiktionary
idiom
bid defiance
  • To refuse to submit; offer resistance to.
American Heritage
bid fair
  • To appear likely.
American Heritage
bid fair
  • to seem likely (to be or do something)
Webster's New World
bid in
  • at an auction, to bid more than the best offer on one's own property in order to keep it
Webster's New World
bid up
  • to raise the amount bid
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bid

Noun

Singular:
bid
Plural:
bids

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Bid

Origin of Bid

  • From Middle English beden, from the Old English verb bēodan (“offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with the Old English verb biddan (“ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English bidden, from the Old English verb biddan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with the Old English verb bēodan ‘offer, announce’ (see Etymology 2 below). Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden, German bitten, Danish bede.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English bidden to ask, command (from Old English biddan gwhedh- in Indo-European roots) Middle English beden to offer, proclaim (from Old English bēodan bheudh- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin bis in diē.

    From Wiktionary

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