What is bid?

More definitions of "bid":

• (verb): Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands.
  Synonyms: call

• (noun): A formal proposal to buy at a specified price.
  Synonyms: tender

• (verb): Invoke upon.
  Example: "Bid farewell"
  Synonyms: wish

• (verb): Ask someone in a friendly way to do something.
  Synonyms: invite

• (verb): Ask for or request earnestly.
  Example: "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
  Synonyms: beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure

• (noun): (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make.
  Synonyms: bidding

• (noun): An attempt to get something.
  Example: "He made a bid to gain attention"
  Synonyms: play

• (verb): Propose a payment.
  Synonyms: offer, tender

• (noun): An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
  Synonyms: command, bidding, dictation

Famous quotes containing the word bid:

“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Do not speak like a death’s-head, do not bid me remember mine end.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“O, call back yesterday, bid time return.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)