Word Meanings - ABIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To wait; to pause; to delay. Chaucer. 2. 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. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv.

Additional info about word: ABIDE

1. To wait; to pause; to delay. Chaucer. 2. 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. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55. 3. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. 1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding. To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABIDE)

• Bide
• Wait
• remain
• tarry
• stay
• await
• expect
• anticipate
• continue
• bear
• abide
• endure
• Continue
• Last
• persist
• persevere
• proceed
• Dwell
• Stop
• rest
• inhabit
• sojourn
• lodge
• linger
• live
• reside
• Last Continue
• hold
• Live Vegetate
• grow
• survive
• dwell
• last
• subsist
• behave
• act
• breathe
• exist

Related words: (words related to ABIDE)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• PERSISTING
  Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
• PROCEREBRUM
  The prosencephalon.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• EXISTER
  One who exists.
• ABIDER
  1. One who abides, or continues. "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney. 2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed.
• PROCEPTION
  Preoccupation. Eikon Basilik
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• TARRY
  Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
• EXISTIBLE
  Capable of existence. Grew.
• LINGERING
  1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• PROCEEDING
  The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act
• RESIDE
  1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time. At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. In no fixed place
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• OVERLINGER
  To cause to linger; to detain too long. Fuller.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• UNLODGE
  To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• SELF-EXISTENT
  Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.