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Bid   /bɪd/   Listen
Bid

noun
1.
An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.  Synonyms: bidding, command, dictation.
2.
An attempt to get something.  Synonym: play.  "He made a bid to gain attention"
3.
A formal proposal to buy at a specified price.  Synonym: tender.
4.
(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make.  Synonym: bidding.
verb
(past bade; past part. bidden, bid; pres. part. bidding)
1.
Propose a payment.  Synonyms: offer, tender.
2.
Invoke upon.  Synonym: wish.  "Bid farewell"
3.
Ask for or request earnestly.  Synonyms: adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, press.
4.
Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands.  Synonym: call.
5.
Make a serious effort to attain something.
6.
Ask someone in a friendly way to do something.  Synonym: invite.



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"Bid" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Bid good by, for a time, to Necile and her sisters; for you shall accompany me on my journey through ...
— The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus • L. Frank Baum
... good-humoured; but she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, and, at thirteen, she did not bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various
... it require much art to learn all this from that pathetic plaint about the foot-paths. For the game of the Briton in a foreign land is ever the same. It changes not from generation unto generation. Bid him to the feast and set before him all your wealth of cellar and garner. Spread before him the meat, heap up for him the fruits of the season. Weigh down the board with every vegetable that the gardener's art can bring to perfection in or out of its time—white-potatoes, sweet-potatoes, ...
— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner
... right to hide our troubles, but it is not right that you should hide yours from me. You are my firstborn child and my only daughter. There are girls who are very good, but between their mothers and them there is a wall. They do what they are bid; they are kind, but that is all. They live apart from those that bore them. I would not give a straw for such duty and love. I gathered one of our Christmas roses this morning. We have taken great care to keep them from being splashed and ...
— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford
... to guess, I should perhaps say he does like it. Here we are now. Inside this low gate you are within the demesne, and I may bid you welcome to Kilgobbin. We shall build a lodge here one of these days. There's a good stretch, however, yet to the castle. We call it two miles, and it's not far ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever


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