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

The poem survives today because it was copied into certain manuscripts of Ecclesiastical History of the English People, an 8th century history written in Latin by the English monk Bede.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

The Venerable Bede mentioned the "king's village" at "Rendlaesham" in his 8th Century book An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2023

St. Bede is located in affluent La Cañada Flintridge, where La Cañada Unified was just ranked the fourth-best school district in California by Niche.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 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

Bede didn’t want to abandon the new dating system, so he extended Dionysius’s calendar backward.

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