bide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: buyed
Forms: form: bides
form: biding
form: bode
form: bided
form: bided
form: bidden
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.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese, Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”).
Senses: examples: text: And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt
ref: c. 1570, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes:
glosses: To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
examples: text: 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.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [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:
glosses: To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
examples: text: All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
examples: text: And thither wending there that night they bode.
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 168:
text: "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."
ref: 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:
text: It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.
ref: 1913, Fred E. Weatherly, Danny Boy:
glosses: To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
glosses: To wait for; to await.
Synonyms: sense: to bear
word: put up with
sense: to dwell or reside in a location
word: live
sense: to wait
word: stand by
sense: to wait for
word: await
Derived terms: abide
bide one's time
bide tryst
overbide
unbidable
Related terms: bid
faith
fidelity