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bide

verb
/baɪd/US

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”).

  1. inherited from *bʰéydʰeti✻
  2. inherited from *bīdaną✻
  3. inherited from *bīdan✻
  4. inherited from bīdan
  5. inherited from biden

Definitions

  1. To bear

    To bear; to endure; to tolerate.

    • And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt

  2. To face with resistance

    To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.

    • 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.

  3. To dwell or reside in a location

    To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.

    • All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
    • 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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To wait

      To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.

      • And thither wending there that night they bode.
      • "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."
      • It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.

    2. To wait for

      To wait for; to await.

    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

abide, bide one's time, bide tryst, overbide, unbidable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bide. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01bide02location03populated04supplied05supply06fill07obey08bidding09bidden

A definitional loop anchored at bide. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at bide

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA