Helen Fenton

Abide: Definition and part of speech

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Abide

  1. v. t. To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.
  2. v. i. To wait; to pause; to delay.
  3. v. i. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one’s abode; to dwell; to sojourn; — with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.
  4. v. i. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.
  5. v. t. To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.
  6. v. t. To endure; to sustain; to submit to.
  7. v. t. To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abode: Definition and part of speech

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Abode

  1. imp. & p. p. of Abide
  2. pret. of Abide.
  3. n. Act of waiting; delay.
  4. n. Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  5. n. Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
  6. v. t. An omen.
  7. v. t. To bode; to foreshow.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Abib: Definition and part of speech

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Abib

  1. n. The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.