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bedrift
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English
Etymology
Verb
bedrift (third-person singular simple present bedrifts, present participle bedrifting, simple past and past participle bedrifted)
- (ambitransitive) To drift about; drift around.
- 1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history:
- The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?
- 1918, Katharine Lee Bates, The retinue, and other poems:
- Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, [...]
- 2011, Anonymous, William Morris, Eirkr Magnusson, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings:
- [...] That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, [...]
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Danish
Etymology
Formally a nominalization of bedrive (with the verbal noun drift as its second part). Influenced by Middle Low German bedrif and German Betrieb.
Pronunciation
Noun
bedrift c (singular definite bedriften, plural indefinite bedrifter)
Declension
Derived terms
- heltebedrift
- bedriftslæge
References
- “bedrift” in Den Danske Ordbog
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German bedrif.
Noun
bedrift m (definite singular bedriften, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)
References
- “bedrift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German bedrif.
Noun
bedrift f (definite singular bedrifta, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)
References
- “bedrift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
bedrift c
- feat, exploit; an impressive, heroic or otherwise laudable act
- achievement
- (archaic) company or business
Declension
Synonyms
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