# bide
## English
### 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: /baɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪd

### Verb

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

* Bedi, EBID, dieb

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bide/ [bi.ð̞e]
* Rhymes: -ide
* Hyphenation: bi‧de

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

bide inan
* path, track, way
* way, manner, method, procedure
* journey
* line

##### Derived terms

* bidea galdu
* bideari lotu
* bide eman
* labur bide

### Etymology 2
#### Particle

bide
* 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: [ˈb̥iːðə]
* Rhymes: -iːdə

### Verb

bide (imperative bid, infinitive at bide, present tense bider, past tense bed, perfect tense har bidt)
* bite (to cut off a piece by clamping the teeth)

#### Conjugation
## French
### Etymology

From bidon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bid/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -id

### Noun

bide m (plural bides)
* fiasco, flop
* (colloquial) paunch, belly
* (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
* Rōmaji transcription of ビデ

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide or bideer, definite plural bidea or bideene)
* alternative spelling of bidé

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bíða.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²biː.də/

#### Verb

bide (present tense bid, past tense beid, supine bide, past participle biden, present participle bidande, imperative bid)
* (intransitive) to exist
    Synonym: vere til

### Etymology 2

From French.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biˈdeː/

#### Noun

bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide, definite plural bidea)
* alternative spelling of bidé

### References

* “bide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* bidé, bedi, beid

## Old English
### Verb

bīde
* inflection of bīdan:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

## Scots
### Etymology

From Old English bīdan, from Proto-Germanic.

### Verb

bide
* to dwell, to live
    Tae bide somewhaur: to dwell somewhere.
    Tae bide: to dwell.
    Whaur dae ye bide?: where do you live?
* 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: /bǐdeː/
* Hyphenation: bi‧de

### Noun

bìdē m (Cyrillic spelling бѝде̄)
* bidet

#### Declension
### References

* “bide”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025