bode

Verb
US[bohd]/boʊd/1 syllable
Synonyms: portendauspicateprognosticateomenpresagebetokenforeshadowaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredict

Open English WordNet

Verb (1)boded, boding

  1. indicate, as with a sign or an omen“These signs bode bad news”Synonyms: portendauspicateprognosticateomenpresagebetokenforeshadowaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredictMore general bespeak, betokenMore specific threaten, foreshow

Related words augur noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Bode (…), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Boded; present participle & verbal noun Boding.]

Origin: OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. boða to announce, Sw. båda to announce, portend. √89. See Bid.

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

A raven that bodes nothing but mischief.— Oliver Goldsmith
Good onset bodes good end.— Edmund Spenser
Bode intransitive verb

To foreshow something; to augur.

Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you.— John Dryden

Synonyms: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.

Bode noun

1. An omen; a foreshadowing. obsolete

The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.— Geoffrey Chaucer

2. A bid; an offer. Obs. or Dial. Sir Walter Scott

Bode noun

Origin: AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, transitive verb

A messenger; a herald. William Robertson

Bode noun

Origin: See Abide.

A stop; a halting; delay. obsolete

Bode past tense & past participle from Bide.

Abode.

There that night they bode.— Alfred Tennyson
Bode past participle of Bid.

Bid or bidden. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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