eBay

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proper noun

A popular Internet auction website.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A popular Internet auction website.

    A used pink bathrobe A rare mint snow globe A Smurf TV tray I bought on eBay.

    2003, "Weird Al" Yankovic, eBay (song)
    2 more examples

    SIMONE: And he tracked down Mom's cameo—the one Dad pawned? He outbid fourteen other buyers on eBay.

    2014, Molly Smith Metzler, Elemeno Pea, →ISBN, page 66

    When Zaq originally won his two-acre Utah plot off eBay in July 2005, he did so with the minimum bid of $610 dollars.

    2015 October 29, Mike Abu, “A Trip to Zaqistan, One Man’s ‘Sovereign Nation’ in the Middle of the Utah Desert”, in VICE
verbeBay (third-person singular simple present eBays, present participle eBaying, simple past and past participle eBayed)

present singular third person eBays · participle present eBaying · participle past eBayed · past eBayed

  1. To put on auction at eBay.

Origin

Short for Echo Bay Technology Group, the consulting firm involved with its development. By surface analysis, e- (digital) + bay.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Arabic إِيبَاي
  • إِيبَاي (ʔībāy)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Chinese Mandarin 電子灣 /电子湾, 電子港灣 /电子港湾
  • 電子灣 /电子湾 (diànzǐ-wān)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
  • 電子港灣 /电子港湾 (diànzǐ-gǎngwān)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
French eBay
  • eBayeBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Greek ημπεη
  • ημπεη (impeï)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Hebrew איביי
  • איביי (íbey)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Hindi ईबे
  • ईबे (ībe)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Japanese イーベイ
  • イーベイ (ībei)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Korean 이베이
  • 이베이 (ibei)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Persian ایبی
  • ایبی (i-bey)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Russian иБэ́й, ибэ́й
  • иБэ́й (iBɛ́j)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
  • ибэ́й (ibɛ́j)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)
Thai อีเบย์
  • อีเบย์ (ii-bee)eBay (alternative non-romanised names)

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

bayeabey
Cite this entry
APA

eBay. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eBay

MLA

“eBay.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eBay. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eBay,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eBay.

Source: eBay on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.