bidden
Called to attend
Bidden is the past participle of bid in its older sense of commanding or inviting: We did as we were bidden.
It appears in phrases like bidden guests (those formally invited) and unbidden (uninvited or unsummoned).
The form sounds archaic or literary; modern speech typically uses bid or asked instead.
Request to attend
- guestWelcomed visitor
- welcomeHospitable greeting offered
- summonedCalled to appear
- calledContacted by phone
reception · gathering · banquet · party · host · hospitality · entreated · requested
Methodical arrangement or request
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- edictAuthoritative public command
injunction · dictate · behest · commandment · charge · summons · instruction · dictation
invitation
Request to attend
called · reception · gathering · banquet · party · host · hospitality · entreated · requested · asked
order
Methodical arrangement or request
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
edict · injunction · dictate · behest · commandment · charge · summons · instruction · dictation · enjoined
duty
Required moral task
obliged · constrained · beholden · indebted · incumbent · necessitated · expected · pledged · committed · honor-bound
biddenunbidden
Not asked for
uninvited · unsummoned · uncalled · unwelcomed · unsolicited
- bidding warCompeting offers driving prices up
- highest bidderWinner at auction
- competitive biddingRivals offering prices
- do one's bidding
- do someone's biddingExecute another's commands
- lowest bidder
forbidden, bidding, forbidding, bidder, unbidden, outbidden, rebidding