BIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bide mean? 

• BIDE (verb)
  The verb BIDE has 1 sense:

1. dwell

  Familiarity information: BIDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bide    ... he / she / it bides   
Past simple: bided    / boded   
Past participle: bided    / boded   
-ing form: biding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dwell

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

abide; bide; stay

Context example:

stay a bit longer--the day is still young

Hypernyms (to "bide" is one way to...):

continue; remain; stay; stay on (continue in a place, position, or situation)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bide"):

visit (stay with as a guest)

outstay; overstay (stay too long)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Here I must bide, and talk and sew and spin, and spin and sew and talk.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, ma'am—but not to bide long.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“By your leave, ma'am,” returned Mr. Peggotty, “I should take it kind, pervising you doen't mind my clicketten, if you'd bide heer.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Then what are you going to do?" she demanded again, with a tense, quiet utterance that boded an outbreak.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

If you are single and not dating, bide your time for now.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“So much the worse!” thought Catherine; such ill-timed exercise was of a piece with the strange unseasonableness of his morning walks, and boded nothing good.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I smiled on him, did my duty to his children, and bided my time.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)