ID

A2 Topic:General Vocabulary

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.

Verb forms

Verb forms are not available for this word yet.

Thesaurus

Word family

Forms ids

Derived forms eidideridistself-iduid

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”).

id la-new Es German

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Topics

General Vocabulary

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# 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
- General Vocabulary

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