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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



... the bloody tribunal of the inquisition, whose rigors they had refused to mitigate on Cromwell's solicitation,[***] he hoped that a holy and meritorious war with such idolaters could not fail of protection from Heaven.[****] A preacher, likewise, inspired as was supposed by a prophetic spirit, bid him "go and prosper;" calling him "a stone cut out of the mountains without hands, that would break the pride of the Spaniard, crush Antichrist, and make way for the purity of the gospel ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. - From Charles I. to Cromwell • David Hume
... my house in order to drag you out of it," he replied quietly; "so, I pray you, do as I bid you." ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... trembling, vibrating, emotional creature will love one day, when the man arrives to whom imperious Nature shall bid ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... Colonel Esmond had left every penny of his little fortune to this boy. It was the colonel's firm conviction that the next battle would put an end to him: for he felt aweary of the sun, and quite ready to bid that and the earth farewell. Frank would not listen to his comrade's gloomy forebodings, but swore they would keep his birthday at Castlewood that autumn, after the campaign. He had heard of the engagement at home. "If Prince ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... captain that a strange brig had come into the harbour and anchored near us—that soon afterward Manuel Silva was seen holding some communication with the people on board. In a little time a boat came off from her, and after some conversation with a man in the boat, he said that he must bid us good-bye. No persuasions the mate used could induce him to stop, and he stepped into the boat, and nothing more had been seen of him. We were very sorry to lose him, and it struck us at the time, I remember, that there was something mysterious in ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston


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