BADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bade mean? 

• BADE (noun)
  The noun BADE has 1 sense:

1. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria

  Familiarity information: BADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Bade" is a kind of...):

West Chadic (a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member)

 Context examples 

They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I can remember that last night when he bade farewell to my mother.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A voice within bade us enter, and we entered a bare, unfurnished room such as Hall Pycroft had described.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Soon after the second breakfast, Edmund bade them good-bye for a week, and mounted his horse for Peterborough, and then all were gone.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The shepherd did as she bade him, and next morning just as day dawned, he saw the chest open, and the flower come out.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He bade me go and leave the door wide open.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She longed to bid me hasten my return; a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both good-night and bustled off upon her way.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)