abider
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /əˈbɑɪ.dɚ/
Noun

abider (plural abiders)

  1. (obsolete) One who abides, or continues. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  2. One who dwells or stays; a resident. [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.



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