English

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

• bedrive

Danish

Etymology

Nominalization of bedrive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈdreft/, [b̥eˈd̥ʁεfd̥]
• (Dialectal Jutlandic) IPA^(key): [b̥eˈd̥ʁœʊ̯d̥]

Noun

bedrift c (singular definite bedriften, plural indefinite bedrifter)

1. achievement
2. farm
3. company
4. business
5. trade

Inflection

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

• “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)

1. a company or business

References

• “bedrift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.