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# bid

«bid» in Mova's school dictionary: **to say goodbye** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (bid, bids, bidding; bid); noun (a bid)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bid farewell is to say goodbye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bid/#m1)

2) (old use) To bid someone is to order or ask them to do something: «I bid you come in.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bid/#m2)

3) At an auction, to bid is to offer a price, and a bid is that offer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bid/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a hero bids farewell to his family before a journey; «bid» can mean command or ask; in sales it means offer a price

### examples

- She bid farewell to her friends at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bid/#x1)
- «Come now,» the king bid him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bid/#x2)
- At the auction, Ann made the highest bid for the painting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bid/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.792/)
- [Behold, I am bidden to bless; and when He hath blessed, I cannot call it back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.856/)
- ['Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.30/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.