Bide
[baɪd]
Definition
(verb.) dwell; 'You can stay with me while you are in town'; 'stay a bit longer--the day is still young'.
Editor: Val--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
(v. t.) To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.
(v. t.) To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
(v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.
Typist: Wolfgang
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Endure, suffer, tolerate, bear, put up with, submit to.[2]. Abide, await, wait for.
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wait, remain, tarry, stay, await, expect, anticipate, continue, bear, abide,endure
ANT:Quit, depart, migrate, move, resist, resent, repel, abjure, protest, rebel
Editor: Lucia
Definition
v.t. and v.i. same as Abide to wait for.—n. Bid′ing (Shak.) residence habitation.
Editor: Wallace
Examples
- A man who is doing well elsewhere wouldn't bide here two or three weeks for nothing, said Fairway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If 'tan't, I'll bide it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But I can bide my time, if she's ill. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Indeed it was: I had as good a right to die when my time came as he had: but I should bide that time, and not be hurried away in a suttee. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I was tired, but she made me bide and keep up the fire just the same, while she kept going up across Rainbarrow way. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Perhaps he's coming to bide with his mother a little time, as she must feel lonely now the maid's gone. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I'm as dry as a kex with biding up here in the wind, and I haven't seen the colour of drink since nammet-time today. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I don't like biding by myself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But the main reason why I am biding here like this is that I want to wait till the moon rises. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And you may be sure I won't disappoint ye by biding away, Mr. Wildeve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Curst Ate bides upon the threshold stone. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- After that event Bode suggested that it was possible other astronomers had observed Uranus before, without recognizing it as a planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Those spouting geysers certainly don't bode any good, sir, nor that earthquake either. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Its distance is thirty times that of the earth from t he sun instead of thirty-nine times, as Bode's Law would require. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Lycurgus