Biden

See also: biden

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Old French bouton (“button”), metonymic surname for a button-maker, of Germanic origin. See button.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɪdən/
  • Rhymes: -aɪdən
  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

Biden (plural Bidens)

  1. A surname.
    1. Joe Biden, 46th president of the United States (2021–2025).
      Synonyms: 46, (all derogatory) Beijing Biden, Bidet, Brandon, Xiden
      • 2021 March 20, Maureen Dowd, “Old Pol, New Tricks”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
        Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”

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(all terms are derived from Joe Biden)

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