ID A2 Topic:Time US /aɪˈdiː/ See IPA manual Freq #2538 Meanings 1 noun An official card or document that proves who you are. Show me your ID before you enter the building. 2 verb To check someone's identification, especially to prove their age. The bartender will ID you before serving a drink. 3 verb To recognize and name a person or thing. Police were unable to ID the body found in the river. Thesaurus Word family Forms ids Derived forms eidideridistself-iduid Etymology AI details From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”). id la-new Es German View etymology graph -> Topics Time External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # ID **Type:** Word **Level:** A2 **Part of speech:** noun, verb **IPA (US):** /aɪˈdiː/ **Frequency rank:** 2538 ## Meanings 1. An official card or document that proves who you are. 2. To check someone's identification, especially to prove their age. 3. To recognize and name a person or thing. ## Examples - Show me your ID before you enter the building. - The bartender will ID you before serving a drink. - Police were unable to ID the body found in the river. ## Derived Forms - eid - ider - idist - self-id - uid ## Roots and Affixes - Root: id - Root: Es ## Etymology From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”). ## AI Etymology ID comes from New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”). In current use, the main senses are “An official card or document that proves who you are” and “To check someone's identification, especially to prove their age”. ## Topics - Time markdown