Standard Lemma guide

vide

verb · 3 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

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Received-Pronunciation: /vaɪd/
  • Received-Pronunciation: vīd
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -aɪd
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪdi/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɪdi/
  • Received-Pronunciation: vī′dē
  • Received-Pronunciation: vĭd′ē
  • General-American: /ˈvidi/
  • General-American: /ˈvideɪ/
  • General-American: vē′dē
  • General-American: vē′dā
  • rhymes with -aɪdi
  • rhymes with -ɪdi
  • rhymes with -eɪ
  • CMU ARPABET: V AY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

verb

Meaning 1

Clipping of divide (to split or separate into two or more parts.).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ambitransitive, clipping

Qualifier: African-American Vernacular

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

Clipping of divide! (an order for the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups [the ayes and the nays] for the counting of the members’ votes).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

Qualifier: parliamentary jargon

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis; see; consult; refer to.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: imperative, singular, verb

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

See divide.

From Latin vidē (“see (thou)”), second-person singular imperative of videō (“to see”).