bidden

verb

variants or bid also bade
past participle of bid
1
as in instructed
to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority the servants were expected to do exactly as they were bidden

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2
as in invited
to request the presence or participation of as company president, I bid you all to come to our annual holiday party!

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Recent Examples of bidden Hundreds of fans lined the streets of a seaside Welsh village on Saturday to bid farewell to late singer Bonnie Tyler as her coffin was brought home. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026 The final chords rang out; the comedians bid their audience farewell. — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026 More importantly, the relevant question is not simply bid price, but value. — David I. Levine, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026 Walter put a take-it-or-leave-it bid on the table so high — hundreds of millions above where the other bidders had been in the process — that former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt called off the auction and congratulated Walter. — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 Morrison bid successfully on Chappellet Vineyards 2024 Pritchard 57 Cabernet Sauvignon, which fetched $7,350 from the top buyer. — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2026 The elevator moment is only one of the silent visual callbacks to Season 1 as a way to bid farewell to our favorite doomsday survival bunker underneath Colorado City (jury’s out on the one revealed underneath the Denver Airport). — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026 The app has become the largest livestream shopping platform outside of Asia, offering an interactive format where sellers display items for sale via livestream, allowing customers to bid for and ask questions about the products. — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026 Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix are setting prices in a market where AI customers and consumer-device makers bid against each other for the same wafers, and the AI customers pay more. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bidden
  1. instructed
  2. invited
  3. ordered
Verb
  • In May of last year, an Army helicopter that was instructed to fly over the Pentagon helipad forced controllers to order two flights to abort landings at Reagan National Airport to prevent collisions.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • During the testing phase, models are pushed to their limits and are instructed to solve a task or fulfill an objective.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of instructed
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  • Unlike the situation in Kamsack, this time, Didulo and her followers had been invited by Manz onto private property — the Richmound School — which gave them legal protections.
    — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Attendees are invited to bring a lawn chair for the concert, which includes food vendors from local restaurants.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of invited
Verb
  • On Tuesday, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul ordered an urgent review of gun regulations, including a suspension of new permits to purchase firearms and a review of existing permits, according to a statement from the Government House.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In a news release Calvo said the closures were not ordered by any outside agency.
    — CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of ordered

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