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Definitions: Abide |
AbideVerb1. Dwell (archaic); "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young". 2. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: AbideSynonyms: bear (v), bide (v), brook (v), endure (v), put up (v), stand (v), stay (v), stomach (v), suffer (v), support (v), tolerate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | Acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede; (yield); come round to; abide by; permit. |
Compromise | Verb: compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms; (contract); submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange; straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; take the will for the deed. |
Continuance in action | Verb: continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course; carry on, keep up. |
Dislike | Shun, avoid; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from; not be able to bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make faces. |
Diuturnity | Verb: last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand years. |
Excitability | Tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit; (yield); submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach. |
Existence | Abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay. |
Expectation | Wait for, tarry for, lie in wait for, watch for, bargain for; keep a good lookout for, keep a sharp lookout for; await; stand at "attention," abide, bide one's time, watch. |
Feeling | Bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide; (be composed); experience; (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand. |
Observance | Verb: observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to, adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office. |
Permanence | Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good. |
Presence | People; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge, nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode; (be located); tenant. |
Quiescence | Stagnate; quieta non movere; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful; keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed. |
Submission | Pocket the affront; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; grin and abide, grin and bear it, shrug the shoulders, resign oneself; submit with a good grace; (bear with). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abide |
| English words defined with "abide": A-, Abid, abide by, Abit, Away with ♦ Ne exeat ♦ spirit world, Stick ♦ To abide by, To dwell in, To dwell on, To stand to ♦ Won, Wone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abide": Dumachus ♦ Open Conference ♦ Stand to a Bargain. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Abide" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Turkish (memorial, monument). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They abide. (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb) Blackarachnia, oh dark poison of my heart, abide with me yet a while! (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) Madam, she has a circumstance that I cannot abide. (Cinderella; writing credit: Charles Perrault; Joseph Schrank) There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully create a sequel. (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) | |
Lyrics | And only then shall I abide this tide ("Hook"; performing artist: Blues Traveler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Abide with Me (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Daniel Webster | If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. |
St. John of the Cross | Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But this no more makes a man a member of that society, a perpetual subject of that common-wealth, than it would make a man a subject to another, in whose family he found it convenient to abide for some time; though, whilst he continued in it, he were obliged to comply with the laws, and submit to the government he found there. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In addition, franchises must abide by laws governing fair trade and competition. (references) | |
Therefore, general rules of civil and commercial right are applied, by which both parties will abide with what was stipulated in the respective contract. (references) | ||
This is expected to increase to 200 buildings by next year. New buildings in the private and public sectors abide by a set of energy efficiency standards. (references) | ||
Children | India | In January, the NHRC wrote to the chief ministers of all states to ask them to abide by recommendations to remove all persons with mental illness from ordinary jails; however, by year's end, the directive had not been implemented. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Ghana | The Government at times alleged that some reporters and editors failed to abide by professional ethical guidelines. (references) |
Malaysia | Harakah stated that it would abide by the Home Ministry directive and the newspaper generally no longer is sold openly. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | These companies have to abide by Spanish labor laws. (references) |
Netherlands | The Dutch also abide by all internationally agreed strategic trade controls e.g. the Wassenaar Agreement. (references) | |
Nicaragua | It recognizes as legitimate all political forces that abide by the democratic process and eschew violence. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yemen | In practice many authorities abide by these provisions only if bribed. (references) |
Zimbabwe | In April and May, the Government failed to abide by two High Court rulings requiring that police officials remove war veterans and other squatters trespassing on commercial farms. (references) | |
Costa Rica | The Constitution prohibits cruel or degrading treatment and holds invalid any statement obtained through violence, and the authorities generally abide by these prohibitions; however, members of the public forces were responsible for some physical abuse. (references) | |
Minorities | Moldova | However, Transnistrian authorities refused to abide by the law. (references) |
Political Economy | ECUADOR | U.S. investors in these sectors are primarily large multinational companies that abide by the Ecuadorian Labor Code. (references) |
Niger | During the year, the forces continued to abide by their statement; however, members of the security forces committed abuses. (references) | |
Political Rights | Peru | They were removed on grounds that they failed to abide by their oath of office to uphold the Constitution. (references) |
Comoros | The other leaders did not indicate any unwillingness to abide by the terms of the agreement by year's end. (references) | |
Pakistan | President Musharraf pledged to abide by a May 2000 Supreme Court ruling that mandates that national elections be held no later than 90 days after October 12, 2002. Between December 31, 2000, and August 2, local elections were held in five phases on a nonparty basis. (references) | |
Trade | Thailand | To abide by the GATT Valuation System (GVS), Thailand announced its new customs valuation scheme on March 8, 2000, which became effective on January 1, 2000 . Under the new system, there are 6 methods in order of relevance to calculate the import duty. (references) |
Mexico | If a NOM-issuing government agency decides to conduct all conformity assessment activities for a given NOM, then it does not have to abide by EMA procedures nor allow for the participation of foreign test laboratories to test for compliance with its NOMs. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | U.S. citizens should carry identification at all times, including proof of U.S. citizenship, and abide by any restrictions imposed during a state of emergency or risk arrest. (references) |
Worker Rights | Gabon | The Labor Code prohibits direct government action against individual strikers who abide by the arbitration and notification provisions. (references) |
China | Many monks and nuns who attempt to protest peacefully or refuse to abide by rules imposed by government authorities in Buddhist monasteries are subject to detention. (references) | |
Honduras | In August and September 2000, the Government reaffirmed its commitment to abide by the terms of the 1995 MOU and to take additional steps to strengthen enforcement of the Labor Code. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | They're a democracy trying to abide by Western norms in a region that does not play by those rules. |
Rush Limbaugh | It's because Rush persuades people to a conservative, liberty-loving point of view that control-freak Democrats simply cannot abide. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We shall be host in spirit as well as in fact, for nowhere does there abide a fiercer determination that this peace shall live than in the hearts of the American people. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Abide" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 94.06% of the time. "Abide" is used about 286 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 94.06% | 269 | 17,948 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.24% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 286 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "abide" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Abide | Last name | 100 | 88,780 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "abide": abide by ♦ abide by a promise ♦ abide by consequences ♦ abide by one's word ♦ abide by the law ♦ abide by the rules ♦ i can't abide him ♦ To abide by. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abide with me | 59 |
abide in christ | 8 |
abide lyrics | 6 |
abide midi | 4 |
abide history | 2 |
abide eventide tis | 2 |
abide in me | 2 |
abide hymn victorian world | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | wag vir (await, expect, wait, wait for), wag (await, expect, wait, wait for), verwag (await, expect, wait, wait for), uithou (bear, carry out, endure, put, put up with, suffer), staan (bear, carry out, endure, put, put up with, stand, suffer). (various references) | |
Albanian | rri (bide, hang out, keep, perch, remain, reside, set, settle, stay, stop), pajtohem (accord, be reconciled, chime, coincide, comply, comport oneself, concur, conform, cotton, do with, eat humble pie, fall in with, lump it, make friends, make it up, make one's peace with, make up, moderate, put up with, subscribe), mbetem (be left, become, fail, hang over, keep, linger, remain, stay), banoj (dwell, indwell, inhabit, live, Lodge, reside). (various references) | |
Arabic | إلتزم (adhere, involve, take on), بقي (be, bide, continue, endure, exist, remain, reside, rest, sit, stay, stick around, stop, subsist, sustain, tarry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стоя (keep, remain, sit, sit up, stand, stay, stick, tarry), чакам (attend, await, cool one's heels, hang on, Tarry, wait, wait about), търпя (accept, admit, bear, digest, endure, play along, put up with, stick, suffer, support, tolerate), оставам (continue, endure, let, persist, remain, remain behind, stay, stay behind, stick, void), очаквам (anticipate, apprehend, await, contemplate, envisage, expect, hope, wait, watch, ween), пребивавам (reside), изчаквам (await, bide, mark time). (various references) | |
Catalan | esperar (await, expect, foresee, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Chinese | 遵守 (Abiding, Adhere, Adhered, Adhering, Observance), 守候 . (various references) | |
Czech | snést (Brook, endure, stand, stomach, suffer, take), dodržet (redeem, stand, stand by), řídit se èím (act up to, comply, go by smth.). (various references) | |
Danish | tåle (endure, put up with, tolerate), gennemgå (bear, endure, experience, live through, put up with, suffer, survive), forvente (advert, await, expect, pay attention, pay attention to, wait, wait for, watch out for), forblive (remain, stay, stay over), bo (be a guest of, be on a visit, Bolivia, dwell, live, Republic of Bolivia, stay, stay with, stop), blive (become, come about, get, grow, happen, remain, stay, stay over). (various references) | |
Dutch | wachten (await, expect, holding, wait, wait for), te wachten staan (await, expect, wait, wait for), afhalen (await, collection, deduct, expect, meet, pick up, string, take along, take away, take up, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Esperanto | atendi (await, expect, wait, wait for), suferi (bear, endure, put up with, suffer), restadi, persisti (persevere, persist), elteni (endure), elporti (bear, carry out, endure, put up with, suffer), ĝisatendi (await, bide, stay for, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Faeroese | verða verandi (remain, stay, stay over), vera eftir (remain, stay, stay over), vænta (await, expect, wait, wait for), torga (endure, put up with, tolerate), tola (endure, put up with, tolerate), steðga (cease, come to a halt, halt, remain, stagnate, stay, stay over, stop), orka (endure, energy), loyva (accord, admit, afford, allow, concede, endure, grant, permit, put up with, tolerate), líða (bear, endure, pass, pass by, put up with, suffer), halda fram (persevere, persist), halda út (endure), gista (dwell, live), búgva (dwell, live), bíða (await, expect, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Farsi | پایدارماندن , منتظرشدن (Attend, Await, Hover, Wait), منزل کردن (Camp, Lodge), ماندن (Be, Lie, Remain, Settle, Stall, Stand, Stay, Subsist), وفاکردن (Adhere), تاب اوردن (Bear, Withstand), ساکن شدن (People, Populate, Stanch, Steady), ایستادن (Cease, Stand, Stop), ایستادگی کردن (Resist). (various references) | |
Finnish | asua (dwell, inhabit, live, occupy, reside, stay), pysyä (keep, persevere, persist, remain, stay), odottaa (await, expect, foresee, hope, look forward, wait, wait expect, wait for), kärsiä (bear, endure, go through, put up with, stand, suffer, tolerate), jäädä (remain, stay, stay over, stop). (various references) | |
French | supporter, soutenir, endurer, attendre (hang about). (various references) | |
Frisian | wachtsje (await, expect, wait, wait for), lijen (bear, endure, put up with, suffer), ferwachtsje (await, expect, wait, wait for), biidzje (await, expect, wait, wait for), ôfwachtsje (await, bide, stay for, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
German | weilen (be, dwell, sojourn, stay, Tarry, whiles), warten (attend, await, camp-on, camp-on busy, expect, hang about, hold off, hold on, holding, look after, lookouts, maintain, nurse, ring when free, service, tend, tend to, to groom, to service, wait, wait about, wait around, wait for, waiting), verweilen (abode, linger, pause, rest, sojourn, stay, Tarry, to pause), erwarten (abode, anticipate, await, bargain for, expect, look for, to anticipate, to await, to bide, to estimate, to expect, visualize, wait, wait for), ertragen (abode, bear, born, borne, endurance, endure, put up with, stand, suffer, to endure, tolerate), bleiben (abode, be left, bide, dwell, keep, linger, remain, stay, stay over, Tarry, to remain, to rest, to stay), ausstehen (be due, be owing, be still to come, bear, born, borne, do with, endure, go through, put up with, stand, stomach, suffer), aushalten (bear, born, borne, carry out, endure, hold on, hold out, perseverance, persevere, persist, put up with, sit trough, stand, suffer, survive, sustain, take, to endure, to hold out, to resist, to sustain, to withstand, withstand). (various references) | |
Greek | εμμένω (abide by, adhere, adhere to, hang on, persevere, stick, stick to). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשכון (dwell, inhabit, reside), לש"ות (linger, pause, sojourn, stay), ל"תמי" (persist, pursue, slog), ל"שאר (be left over, bide, remain, rest, stay), ל'לות סבל ות (endure, put up with, stand, tolerate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | várakozik (await, bide, expect, to await, to wait, wait, wait for), vár (await, castle, expect, fastness, fortress, hang fire, hold, stronghold, time and tide wait for no man, to await, to hang fire, to tend, to wait, to wait for, wait, wait for), tartózkodik (beware, dwell, sat, stay, to abide, to eschew, to hold back, to inhabit, to live, to make a stay, to sit, to sojourn), elvisel (bear, bore, borne, endure, stood, suffer, sustain, to abide, to bear, to comport, to endure, to stand, to stomach, to support, to take it, to tolerate, tolerate, undergo), bevár. (various references) | |
Icelandic | vænta (await, expect, wait, wait for), búa (dwell, live), þola (bear, endure, put up with, suffer, tolerate). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ada (am, are, exist, existing, is, there is), tinggal (stay), menantikan (wait for, watch for), diam (bunk, idle, motionless, silent). (various references) | |
Irish | fan le (await, expect, wait for), fair (await, expect, wait for, watch; expect). (various references) | |
Italian | sopportare (acquiesce, bear, bear with, bide, endure, meet, meet with, persevere, put, put up with, stand, stand for, stay, stomach, suffer, support, survival, sustain, to resist, to survive, to withstand, tolerate, undergo, weather), rimanere (be, be left, bleiben, keep, lie, remain, rest, stay, stay here, stay on, stay over, Tarry), restare (be left, keep, lie, remain, rest, stand, stay, stay over, stick around), aspettare (advert, await, be looking forward, bide, expect, pay, pay attention, pay attention to, wait, wait for, watch out for), abitare (dwell, inhabit, live, live in, reside, room). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 規則'守る (to abide, to keep to the regulations), 留まる (to abide, to be fixed, to stay), 服する (to abide by, to be subject to, to obey, to submit to), 恥'忍ぶ (to abide one's shame), "う (to abide, to accompany, to follow, to obey), 住む (to abide, to dwell, to inhabit, to live in, to reside), 守る (to abide, to guard, to obey, to protect), 判決に"う (to abide by the verdict). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すむ (to abide, to be completed, to become transparent, to clear, to dwell, to end, to finish, to inhabit, to live, to live in, to reside, toinhabit), したがう (to abide, to accompany, to follow, to obey), きそく'まもる (to abide, to keep to the regulations), まもる (to abide, to guard, to obey, to protect), ふくする (to abide by, to be subject to, to obey, to submit to), は"けつにしたがう (to abide by the verdict), はじ'しのぶ (to abide one's shame), とまる (to abide, to be fixed, to come to a halt, to halt, to stay, to stay at, to stop), とどまる (to abide, to be fixed, to be limited to, to stay). (various references) | |
Korean | 머무르십시". (various references) | |
Malay | tunggu (await, expect, wait, wait for), menunggu (await, expect, wait, wait for), mengharapkan (await, expect, foresee, wait, wait for), harapkan (await, expect, foresee, wait, wait for), derita ... menderita (bear, endure, put up with, suffer). (various references) | |
Manx | tannaghtyn (abiding, bide, dwell, endure, hold up, lodge, remain, run on; continuance; remanent, stay, stop, survive, tarry). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vente (await, expect, wait, wait for), tåle (endure, put up with, tolerate), forvente (await, expect, wait, wait for), bo (dwell, estate, live). (various references) | |
Papiamen | warda (await, expect, wait, wait for), tolerá (endure, put up with, tolerate), sufri (bear, endure, put up with, suffer), spera (await, expect, hope, wait, wait for), soportá (endure, put up with, tolerate), persistí (persevere, persist), keda (remain, stay, stay over), biba (be alive, dwell, live). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abideay.(various references) | |
Polish | zostawać, przebywać, mieszkać, doczekać się, czekać, cierpieć. (various references) | |
Portuguese | tolerar (admit, bear with, bide, Brook, carry out, endure, forbearance, have, indulge, put up with, receive, stand for, suffer, sustain, swallow, tolerate, wink at), padecer (bear, endure, feel, put up with, suffer), esperar (anticipate, await, bide, expect, hang on, hope, look here, wait, wait for), aguardar (await, bide, expect, look forward, wait, wait for, watch), agüentar (bear, bear up, bear with, carry out, endure, hold back, hold out, hold up, put up with, stand, stand up to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, upbear, withstand). (various references) | |
Romanian | suferi (ail, allow, bear, Brook, carry out, endure, experience, go through, have, languish, permit, put up with, smart, stand, stick, suffer, undergo), sta (be, keep, lie, live, remain, sit, stand, stay, stay over, stop, Tarry), locui (dwell, habit, keep, lie, live, reside, stay, tenant), aştepta (await, bide, book, expect, give time to, lie by for, wait, wait for, watch). (various references) | |
Russian | ждать (await, expect, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Scottish | fuirich (remain, stay, stay over), feith (await, expect, serve, wait, wait for), fan (remain, stay, stay over), buanaich (endure, persevere). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trpeti (brook, do with, endure, put up, put up with, stand, suffer, thole), prebivati (continue, reside), povinovati se (comply, conform, obey). (various references) | |
Spanish | esperar (anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, due, expect, foresee, hang about, hang around, hang on, hold off, hold on, hope, look, look for, look out for, stand about, stand around, stay, stay for, Tarry, think, trust, wait, wait about, wait around, wait for, watch), tolerar (countenance, endure, have, live, put up with, stand, tolerate), morar (dwell, live, sojourn), aguardar (await, bide, expect, look, lookouts, service, stay for, wait, wait for, watch). (various references) | |
Sranan | tan (remain, stay, stay over), pina (bear, endure, miserable, poor, put up with, suffer), libi (be alive, dwell, live), fika (remain, stay, stay over). (various references) | |
Swedish | vänta (await, be expecting, be waiting, expect, keep, Tarry, wait, wait for, waiting), stanna (coagulate, come to, come to a halt, come to rest, draw up, halt, remain, stand, stay, stay over, stay put, stop, Tarry, wait). (various references) | |
Tagalog | maghintáy (await, expect, wait, wait for), hintayín (await, expect, wait, wait for). (various references) | |
Turkish | beklemek (anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, expect, hang about, hang around, hang on, have smth. in prospect, hold on, hope, look for, look forward to, mark time, stand by, stay, Tarry, wait, wait for, watch). (various references) | |
Ukranian | чекати (attend, await, bargain for, expect, look forward, wait), терпіти (bide, do with, forbear, sit down under, stomach, tolerate), очікувати (anticipate, bide, hope, wait, wait about, wait around, watch), зносити (blow away, demolish, knock down, sit down under, take down, tear down, throw down, unbuild, undergo, weather), залишатися незмінним, бути міцним. (various references) | |
Welsh | aros (await, bide, come to a halt, halt, remain, stay, stop, tarry, wait), trigo (die, dwell, stay), goddef (allow, bear, brook, permit, suffer). (various references) | |
Yucatec | pa'tik (await, expect, wait, wait for), pa'tal (await, expect, wait, wait for), p'atal (remain, stay, stay over). (various references) | |
Zulu | sala (remain, stay, stay over), -linda (await, expect, wait, wait for), -hlupheka (bear, endure, put up with, suffer), -hlala (remain, sit, stay, stay over). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | commorabitur, commorabuntur, commorantem, commorantes, commorantium, commorantur, commorari, commorata, commoratae, commorati, commoratique, commoratus, commoremur, commorer, commoror, conversamini, conversantibus, conversantur, conversari, conversati, conversatur, conversatus, conversentur, habito, manere, mansurus, patior, patiri, possideo. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | anbidian. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 15, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Edoxen de tw sila epimeinai autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | [] |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But it was seyn to Silas, to dwelle there; and Judas wente aloone to Jerusalem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Not with stondynge it pleasyd Sylas to abyde there still. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Notwithstanding, it pleased Silas to abide there still. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | [] |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 15, Verse 34 |
| Albanian | Por Silës iu duk mirë të mbetej aty. |
| Bulgarian | А след няколко дни Павел рече на 'арнава: "а се върнем сега по всички градове дето сме проповядвали "осподнето учение, и да нагледаме братята, как са. |
| Cebuano | Apan gipakamaayo ni Silas ang pagpabilin ra didto. |
| Chinese | " 惟 有 西 拉 定 意 仍 住 在 那 裡 〕 |
| Croatian | # |
| Danish | (Men Silas besluttede at blive der.) |
| Dutch | Maar het dacht Silas goed aldaar te blijven. |
| Finnish | |
| French | Toutefois Silas trouva bon de rester. |
| German | Es gefiel aber Silas, daß er dabliebe. |
| Haitian Creole | Men, Silas te pran desizyon pou l' te rete. |
| Hungarian | De Silásnak tetszék ott maradni. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | (Tetapi Silas memutuskan untuk tetap tinggal di Antiokhia.) |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi Silas suka juga tinggal di sana. |
| Italian | . |
| Korean | ( 없 음 ) |
| Latvian | Tomçr Sîla nolçma palikt tur, bet Jûda aizgâja viens uz Jeruzalemi. |
| Maori | Heoi i pai a Hira kia noho ki reira. |
| Modern Greek | Εις τον Σιλαν ομως εφανη ευλογον να μεινη ετι αυτου. |
| Norwegian | Silas fant det best å bli der. |
| Portuguese | [Mas pareceu bem a Silas ficar ali.] |
| Rumanian | Totuw Sila a gqsit cu cale sq rqmknq acolo. |
| Russian | оП уЙМЕ ТБУУХ"ЙМПУШ ПУФБФШУС ФБН. (б йХ"Б ЧПЪЧТБФЙМУС Ч йЕТХУБМЙН.) |
| Shuar | Tura Séras Juáktinian wakerukmiayi. |
| Spanish | Pero a Silas le pareció bien quedarse allí. |
| Swahili | missing |
| Swedish | + |
| Thai | ฝ่ายสิลาสเห็นชอบที่จะอยู่ต่อไปที่นั่น |
| Ukrainian | Але Сила схотів лишитися там, а Юда вернувся до Єрусалиму. |
| Uma | Aga Silas-hana, na'uli': "Ko'ia-a ulu nculii' hilou hi Yerusalem. Hi rehe'i-a ulu hi Antiokhia.")) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abide": abided, abider, abiders, abides. (additional references) | |
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"Abide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abada, abade, abadeh, Abadi, Abado, abae, Abare, abbide, abcd, Abcda, abcde, abcdef, Abda, Abd'el, Abdiel, Abdo, Abede, Abeid, abi, Abid, abiden, abideth, abidi, abied, abiet, abile, Abileah, abinde, abine, abinee, Abiodun, abire, abitibi, abito, abodh, abride, abud, acide, adbide, Adide, aibd, aida, Aidee, aidel, aideo, aidev, aidey, aidu, akidi, albid, albida, albide, albido, alide, Aoife, Apidae, apide, aride, atide, avide, avied, axied, Babbidge, Bahide, Baude, Bavidge, Ebie, ibidi, kabaddi, obide, rabide, sabido. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abide" (pronounced ubī"d) |
| 3 | -b ī" d | bide. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i" | |
-1 letter: abed, aide, bade, bead, bide, idea. | |
-2 letters: aid, bad, bed, bid, dab, deb, dib, die. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, ae, ai, ba, be, bi, de, ed, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i" | |
+1 letter: abided, abider, abides, babied, baddie, bailed, baited, biased. | |
+2 letters: abiders, abridge, addible, alibied, ameboid, audible, baddies, baldies, bandied, bandies, basined, bawdier, bawdies, beadier, beadily, beading, bedrail, biassed, bighead, bipedal, braided, braider, brailed, brained, braised, brigade, cabined, carbide, darbies, daubier, diabase, dieback, disable, habited, hidable, pedicab, piebald, redbait, ridable, seabird, sidebar, subidea, tabbied, tribade. | |
+3 letters: abdicate, abidance, aboideau, abridged, abridger, abridges, abscised, abseiled, amberoid, amoeboid, arabized, ascribed, audibles, backside, badinage, banished, bankside, baptised, baptized, basified, baudekin, bawdiest, bawdries, beadiest, beadings, beadlike, bearding, bedchair, bediaper, bedrails, bedsonia, beladied, beladies, bewailed, biasedly, bidarkee, biddable, bidental, bigarade, bigheads, bilander, billhead, bindable, biparted, birdcage, bivalved, blindage, braiders, brailled, brandied, brandies, breading, brigaded, brigades, buddleia, calibred, carbides, dahabieh, daubiest, daubries, debasing, debating, debonair, deniable, deniably, diabases, diabetes, diabetic, diablery, diatribe, diebacks, dimmable, dippable, disabled, disables, disabuse, drivable, dutiable, editable, endbrain, evadible, findable, gimbaled, guidable, habitude, imbalmed, imbarked, imblazed, labiated, librated, mandible, obtained, obviated, oxidable, pedicabs, piebalds, rabbited, radiable, rebaited, redbaits, rideable, seabirds, semibald, sideband, sidebars, slidable, subideas, tribades, unbiased, vibrated, voidable, wideband, windable. | |
+4 letters: abdicable, abdicated, abdicates, abidances, aboideaus, aboideaux, abolished, abridgers, abstained, adhibited, admirable, adobelike, adverbial, advisable, amberoids, anybodies, arborized, auditable, avoidable, babbitted, backfield, backfired, backsides, backslide, bacteroid, badgering, badinaged, badinages, balconied, banalized, bandolier, banksides, bargained, barricade, bastinade, bastioned, baudekins, bawdiness, beachside, beatified, beatitude, bedamning, bedaubing, bedchairs, bediapers, bedlamite, bedraping, bedsoniae, bedsonias, beheading, beladying, belauding, bendaying, bepainted, bewearied, bidarkees, bigarades, bigheaded, bilanders, billheads, bipedally, birdcages, birthdate, bladelike, blindages, bloviated, boardlike, bobtailed, botanised, botanized, bratticed, breadline, brigadier, broadside, bromeliad, buddleias, buildable, butadiene, cabdriver, carbamide, cedarbird, cohabited, dahabiehs, dauberies, debarking, debarring, debeaking, decidable, definable, definably, derivable, desirable, desirably, devisable, diabetics, diablerie, diabolize, diatribes, dilatable, disabused, disabuses, disbanded, disbarred, disembark, dividable, drillable, drinkable, driveable, dubitable, endbrains, firebrand, gabardine, gaberdine, gimballed, habitudes, hebraized, hobnailed, inaudible, incubated, inhabited, intubated, jubilated, liberated, lullabied, mandibles, medicable, misbiased, obligated, parboiled, rabidness, redbaited, rudbeckia, sibilated, sidebands, sideboard, snakebird, unbraided, unridable, upbraided, upbraider, urbanised, urbanized, waterbird, windbreak. | |
+5 letters: abominated, abridgment, abstricted, admissible, adverbials, airbrushed, ambitioned, antibodies, arabicized, arbitraged, arbitrated, ascendible, attributed, backfields, backfilled, backfitted, backlisted, backslider, backslides, bacterized, bacteroids, bakshished, balkanized, balladries, banderilla, banditries, bandoliers, banistered, barbarized, barricaded, barricades, bartending, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, bastinades, beatitudes, beautified, bedabbling, bedazzling, bediapered, bedlamites, bedwarfing, begladding, beheadings, behindhand, bemadaming, besteading, bifurcated, bighearted, bioassayed, biodegrade, biomedical, bipedalism, bipedality, birthdates, bivouacked, blandished, blandisher, blandishes, bombardier, bombinated, boundaries, brachiated, brandished, brandishes, breadfruit, breadlines, breadstick, brecciated, bridesmaid, bridgeable, bridgehead, brigadiers, brigandage, brigandine, broadening, broadsided, broadsides, bromeliads, brominated, brutalised, brutalized, budgerigar, butadienes, cabdrivers, calibrated, carbamides, carbonized, carburised, carburized, cedarbirds, creditable, creditably, crispbread, debauching, debilitate, debonairly, deceivable, declinable, defeasible, deliberate, deshabille, desirables, despicable, despicably, diableries, diabolized, diabolizes, dialyzable, disbarment, disembarks, dishabille, dislikable, disposable, disputable, disyllable, drawbridge, drinkables, dumbwaiter, dyeability, eradicable, fabricated, fiberboard, fibreboard, fiddleback, fimbriated, firebrands, formidable, gabardines, gaberdines, globalised, globalized, habituated, harborside, herbicidal, hibernated, highballed, illaudable, imbalanced, imbricated, inbreathed, includable, indictable, inebriated, ineducable, labialized, linerboard, lubricated, mailbombed, marbleised, marbleized, misbehaved, misbiassed, misbranded, mislabeled, mislabored, modifiable, obduracies, oxidizable, panbroiled, predicable, rabidities, radiolabel, rebaptized, reboarding, redbaiting, remediable, reobtained, ribaldries, ringbarked, rubricated, rudbeckias, sideboards, snakebirds, stabilized, stablished, subaudible, subdialect, subheading, sublimated, submarined, submediant, timberhead, timberland, tribulated, turbinated, unabridged, unbaptized, undeniable, undeniably, unfindable, upbraiders, verbalized, vindicable, waterbirds, wattlebird, weaverbird, whitebeard, whiteboard, windbreaks. | |
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