Meanings
plural abiders
- obsoleteOne who abides, or continues.First known use First attested around 1350 to 1470.
Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts.
c. 1583, Philip Sidney with Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1 - One who dwells or stays; a resident.First known use First attested around 1350 to 1470.
1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150, Much spends the traveller more than the abider.
1 more example
But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler]
c. 1610, John Speed with Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas, published 1951, page 27
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ud-s-?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂u-s-?
- Proto-Germanic*uz-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéydʰeti
- Proto-Germanic*bīdaną
- Proto-Germanic*uzbīdaną
- Proto-West Germanic*uʀbīdan
- Old Englishābīdan
- Middle Englishabyden
- Englishabide
- Englishabider
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Cite this entry
abider. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abider
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