Avid Meaning
/ˈæv.ɪd/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjEnthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
adjgreedy
Sentence Examples
I'm an avid reader of biographies.
My grandpa was an avid collector of stamps.
She is an avid reader who finishes two books every week.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He is an ____ reader who finishes at least two novels every single week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She is an ____ reader and finishes at least two new books every week.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₁yeti Latin aveō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin avidusbor. French avide English avid From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root."
— 1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World:
"We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us."
— 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, page 3:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He is an ____ reader who finishes at least two novels every single week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She is an ____ reader and finishes at least two new books every week.