Standard Lemma guide

ID

adj · name · noun · pron · verb · 23 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /aɪˈdiː/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iː
  • /ɪd/
  • ĭd
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪd
  • homophone: it'd
  • CMU ARPABET: IH1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: AY1 D IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Initialism of intellectually disabled.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

Abbreviation of Idaho: a state of the United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

Alternative form of Eid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: India, alt-of, alternative

Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Abbreviation of identification, identifier, or identity document.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Show me your ID.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

An ident.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: broadcasting, media, radio, television

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Initialism of image description.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Initialism of intellectual disability.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: MR

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Initialism of intelligent design.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Initialism of industrial design.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Initialism of inside diameter, inner diameter, or internal diameter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: OD

11

noun

Meaning 11

Initialism of industry discount.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Initialism of iron deficiency.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Qualifier: nutrition

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

Alternative spelling of ide (the fish)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

Identifier.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

Alternative form of Eid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: India, alt-of, alternative

Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

pron

Meaning 17

Alternative form of id..

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To identify (an object, etc.).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

verb

Meaning 20

To identify (as something)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

noun

Meaning 21

(psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: instinct, inherent aptitude

22

noun

Meaning 22

a card or badge used to identify the bearer

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • you had to show your ID in order to get in

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: I.D.

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: badge, positive identification

23

noun

Meaning 23

a state in the Rocky Mountains

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Idaho, Gem State

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: American state

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ईद (īd).

From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).

From Swedish id.

Abbreviation of identifier.

Abbreviation of idem, from Latin idem (“same”).

Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: هُوَ (huwa) — id
  • Basque: zera — id
  • Chinese Mandarin: 本我 (běnwǒ) — id
  • Danish: underjeg — id
  • Danish: id — id
  • Dutch: Es — id
  • Dutch: id — id
  • Esperanto: ĝio — id
  • Finnish: viettipohja — id
  • French: ça — id
  • German: Es — id
  • Greek: εκείνο (ekeíno) — id
  • Hindi: इदम् (idam) — id
  • Hungarian: ösztön-én — id
  • Italian: es — id
  • Japanese: エス (esu) — id
  • Occitan: aquò — id
  • Occitan: id — id
  • Persian: نهاد (nahâd) — id
  • Polish: id — id
  • Portuguese: id — id
  • Spanish: ello — id
  • Swedish: det — id
  • Swedish: underjag — id
  • Turkish: id — id
  • Turkish: alt benlik — id
  • Swedish: identifiera — to identify (an object, etc.)
  • Swedish: legitimera — to request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age
  • Swedish: legga — to request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age
  • Swedish: ID:a — to request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age
  • Swedish: identifiera — to identify (as something)