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BADE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Bade" is a kind of...):
West Chadic (a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bid
Context examples:
They pushed off immediately, advising me to make haste for fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so bade me farewell.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I bade good night to Mr. Omer, and to Mr. and Mrs. Joram; and directed my steps thither, with a solemn feeling, which made Mr. Barkis quite a new and different creature.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"We will, Marmee, we will!" cried both, with all their hearts, as she bade them good night.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Poor man, he was very gentle, and when I came away he kissed my hand and bade God bless me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was because of these things that she bade fair to overcome the handicap of her garments.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He seemed in communion with the genius of the haunt: with his eye he bade farewell to something.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He avoided tight places and always backed out of it when they bade fair to surround him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was ages since she had had a moment's conversation with her dearest Catherine; and, though she had such thousands of things to say to her, it appeared as if they were never to be together again; so, with smiles of most exquisite misery, and the laughing eye of utter despondency, she bade her friend adieu and went on.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The next morning the soldier with the green whiskers led the Lion to the great Throne Room and bade him enter the presence of Oz.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I bade him good-night and left him.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
