AVID


Meaning of AVID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ævɪd ]

1.

You use avid to describe someone who is very enthusiastic about something that they do.

He misses not having enough books because he’s an avid reader.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

• av‧id‧ly

Thank you for a most entertaining magazine, which I read avidly each month.

ADV : ADV with v

2.

If you say that someone is avid for something, you mean that they are very eager to get it.

He was intensely eager, indeed avid, for wealth.

ADJ : v-link ADJ , usu ADJ for n

• av‧id‧ly

Western suppliers too are competing avidly for business abroad.

ADV : ADV with v

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