Bede

American  

[beed] / bid /

noun

1. Saint the Venerable Bede, a.d. 673?–735, English monk, historian, and theologian: wrote earliest history of England.

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Bede British  

/ biːd /

noun

1. Latin name: Baeda.  Saint , known as the Venerable Bede . ?673–735 _ad , English monk, scholar, historian, and theologian, noted for his Latin Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731). Feast day: May 27 or 25

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Example Sentences

Bede chose not include the original Old English poem in his History, but to translate it into Latin.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

St. Francis is planning to use nearby Flintridge Prep and St. Bede middle school for parking.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025

Historians have long-been intrigued by a reference by the 8th Century monk-chronicler Bede to the royal complex at Rendlesham, Suffolk.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2023

Paul Bede Johnson was born on Nov. 2, 1928, in Manchester, England, and grew up during the Great Depression.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

In 731 AD, about the time Dionysius’s Easter tables were set to run out, Bede, a soon-to-be- venerable monk from the northern part of England, extended them again.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife