Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Bidding   /bˈɪdɪŋ/   Listen
Bidding

noun
1.
An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.  Synonyms: bid, command, dictation.
2.
A request to be present.  Synonym: summons.
3.
(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make.  Synonym: bid.


Bid

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.



Related searches:
bidding contest
bid price
any-and-all bid
biddable
bidder
buyout bid
by-bid
outbid
overbid
preemptive bid
Slo-Bid
takeover bid
two-tier bid
underbid


Click any word on the page to get its definition
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University
Text size:  A A


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Bidding" Quotes from Famous Books



... they had established themselves at a little table he developed further this gracious thought. "You are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet. Prophecy! What's the good of thinking of what will be!" He raised his glass. "To the destruction of what is," ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
 Read full book for free!
... the Gray Cottage all this time because I knew that it was your wish that I should do so, and I have ever been guided by your wishes; but now Mrs. Blake is going away, and it would trouble me greatly if she were to leave without my bidding her good-bye.' ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
 Read full book for free!
... Before bidding a willing good-bye to the Dutch regime of the New Netherlands, it remains to tell the story of another colony, begun under happy auspices, but so short-lived that its rise and fall are a mere episode in the history ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
 Read full book for free!
... loving the idea of success for him like a triumph of nature; anon, with returning loyalty to her own family and sex, she trembled for Kirstie and the credit of the Elliotts. And again she had a vision of herself, the day over for her old-world tales and local gossip, bidding farewell to her last link with life and brightness and love; and behind and beyond, she saw but the blank butt-end where she must crawl to die. Had she then come to the lees? she, so great, so beautiful, with a heart as fresh as a girl's ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
 Read full book for free!
... the street indicated, and afterward round this corner and that at the bidding of the man on the box until the ...
— The Light That Lures • Percy Brebner
 Read full book for free!


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com