Dictionary Entry
bid
bid is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Bid. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1
of Bid
- 2transitive verb
To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).
- 3transitive verb
To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.
- 4transitive verb
To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.
- 5transitive verb
To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
- 6transitive verb
To invite; to call in; to request to come.
- 7
imp. & p. p. of Bid.
- 8noun
An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.
- 9transitive verb
To pray.
- 10transitive verb
To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
- 11noun
an attempt to get something
"they made a futile play for power"
"he made a bid to gain attention"
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- 12noun
(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make
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- 13noun
a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
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- 14noun
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- 15verb
ask for or request earnestly
"The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
- 16verb
ask someone in a friendly way to do something
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- 17verb
invoke upon
"wish you a nice evening"
"bid farewell"
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- 18verb
make a serious effort to attain something
"His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population"
- 19verb
propose a payment
"The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting"
- 20verb
make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
"He called his trump"
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