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Webster 1913 Edition
Biding
Bid′ing
,Noun.
Residence; habitation.
Rowe.
Webster 1828 Edition
Biding
BI'DING
,ppr.
BI'DING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
biding
biding
See also: bìdìng
English
Noun
biding (plural bidings)
- An awaiting; expectation.
- 2007, Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand:
- I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.
- 2007, Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand:
- (archaic) Residence; habitation
- Hakluyt
- They brought us to their bidings about two miles from the harbour.
- 1776, Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore:
- At Antwerp has my constant biding been, [...]
- Hakluyt
Etymology 2
Verb
biding
- present participle of bide