bede
/biːd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An English monk, historian and theologian from Northumbria who lived from c. 673 to 753, commonly known as the Venerable Bede.
Example Sentences
- "Thus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England."
- "By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!"
- "[…] because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede-house where he was buried."
- "Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers."
- "In Pilgrimage from towne to towne: With offring and with Drilon: To them they bable on their bedes: That they may helpe them in their nedes."
- "Or doe they use their Bedes alone to finde That tale of Paters which they seldome minde?"
Etymology
From Middle English bēde (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English ġebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bed, from Proto-Germanic *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /biːd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
bedes (plural)
bead (alternative)
bedes (present, singular)
beding (participle, present)
bade (past)
bode (participle, past)
boden (participle, past)