Biden

See also: biden

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Old French bouton (“button”), a 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.
    • 2021 October 20, Kate Bennett, “Jill Biden speaks candidly about being a first lady: ‘Nothing can prepare you’”, in CNN‎[1]:
      First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday spoke candidly about her new life, lamenting the enormous pressure a first lady can face.
    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[2], archived from the original on 14 July 2021:
        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.”

Derived terms

(all terms are derived from Joe Biden)

Translations

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Biden is the 110,825th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 159 individuals. Biden is most common among White (91.19%) individuals.

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