Definition of: bid

(bid) noun
1. An offer to pay or accept a price.
2. The amount offered.
3. In card games, the number of tricks or points that a player engages to make; also, a player's turn to bid.
4. An effort to acquire, win, or attain: He made a bid for the governorship.
5. Colloq. An invitation.
—v. bade (Archaic bad) for defs. 3, 4, 6 or bid for defs. 1, 2, 5, 7, bid·den or bid, bid·ding v.t.
1. To make an offer of (a price), as at an auction or for a contract.
2. In card games, to declare (the number of tricks one will engage to take) and specify (the trump suit or no-trump under which the hand will be played): I bid six spades.
3. To command; order.
4. To invite.
5 U.S. Colloq. To invite to join: The fraternity will bid you.
6. To utter, as a greeting or farewell: I bid you good day.
—v.i.
7. To offer a price.
—to bid fair To seem probable.
—to bid in At an auction, to attempt to raise the price (of an object) by competing with spurious bids.
—to bid up To increase the price by offering higher bids. [Fusion of OE biddan ask, demand and bēodan proclaim, command]