bedrift

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English

Etymology

From be- (“about, around”) +‎ drift.

Verb

bedrift (third-person singular simple present bedrifts, present participle bedrifting, simple past and past participle bedrifted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) 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, [...]

Related terms

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)

  1. achievement
  2. company, business, trade
  3. farm

Declension

Declension of bedrift
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bedrift bedriften bedrifter bedrifterne
genitive bedrifts bedriftens bedrifters bedrifternes

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German bedrif.

Noun

bedrift m (definite singular bedriften, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

  1. a company or business

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German bedrif.

Noun

bedrift f (definite singular bedrifta, indefinite plural bedrifter, definite plural bedriftene)

  1. a company or business

References

Swedish

Noun

bedrift c

  1. feat, exploit; an impressive, heroic or otherwise laudable act
  2. achievement
  3. (archaic) company or business

Declension

Declension of bedrift 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bedrift bedriften bedrifter bedrifterna
Genitive bedrifts bedriftens bedrifters bedrifternas

Synonyms

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