bidden
Meaning
- (intransitive) to pray
- (transitive) to pray to (often with a preposition phrase)
- (formal, transitive) to bid
- (intransitive) to hover (of birds), to use wings to remain in the same place in mid-air
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Hyphenated as
bid‧den
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɪdə(n)/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch bidden, from Old Dutch bidden, from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰédʰyeti.
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