Definitions for BID

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BID bid

Spelling: [bid]

IPA: /bɪd/

Bid is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in BID (bdi).

Definitions for BID

noun

1. an act or instance of bidding.
2. Cards. an offer to make a specified number of points or to take a specified number of tricks. the amount of such an offer. the turn of a person to bid.
3. an invitation:
4. an attempt to attain some goal or purpose:
5. Also called bid price. Stock Exchange. the highest price a prospective buyer is willing to pay for a security at a given moment.

verb

1. past participle of bide.

Idioms

1. bid fair. fair1 (def 29).
2. bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity:

Verb phrases

1. bid in, Commerce. to overbid all offers for (property) at an auction in order to retain ownership.
2. bid up, Commerce. to increase the market price of by increasing bids.

verb (used with object)

1. to command; order; direct:
2. to express (a greeting, farewell, benediction, or wish):
3. Commerce. to offer (a certain sum) as the price one will pay or charge:
4. Cards. to enter a bid of (a given quantity or suit):
5. to summon by invitation; invite.
6. Archaic. to endure; bear.
7. Obsolete. to encounter.

verb (used without object)

1. to command; order; direct:
2. to make a bid:
3. to dwell; abide; wait; remain.

Origin of BID

before 900; Middle English bidden, Old English biddan to beg, ask; cognate with Old Frisian bidda, Old Saxon biddian, Old High German bittan (German bitten), Old Norse bithja, Gothic bidjan;

Examples for BID

He, with an imperious air, bid me deserve his love, and I should be sure to have it.

I am bound for my quarters, I came but to thank you for your goodness to me, and to bid you farewell.

Lohse rushes Sigma Alpha Epsilon, gets a bid, endures pledge term, and then submits to the dehumanizing rigors of Hell Night.

At all events, he was left standing on the doorstone, and no one came to bid him enter.

Take the Cup away from Russia now, and we will have the time for countries to bid afresh for 2018.

He lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki that year.

Sen. Mary Landrieu did everything she could Monday night to salvage the shards of her bid for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate.

Unless you do as I bid you, I will keep you in irons for the rest of the voyage!

He bid me tell you so, when he went out, if I found you refractory.

Get ready to bid farewell to the spitfire Bobby Bottleservice and big booty player Ref Jeff.