About The Word Bode
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Bode
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What's The Definition Of Bode?
[v] indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bode: augur | auspicate | betoken | forecast | foreshadow | foretell | omen | portend | predict | prefigure | presage | prognosticate Related Terms | Find terms related to Bode: apprehend | augur | betoken | croak | forebode | foreshadow | foreshow | foretoken | forewarn | have a premonition | have a presentiment | look black | lower | menace | omen | portend | preapprehend | presage | promise | threaten | warn See Also | bespeak | foreshow | indicate | point | signal | threaten Bode In Webster's Dictionary \Bode\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Boding}.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod
command; akin to Icel. bo?a to announce, Sw. b[*a]da to
announce, portend. [root]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. --Goldsmith.
Good onset bodes good end. --Spenser.
\Bode\, v. i. To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. --Dryden. Syn: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken. \Bode\, n. 1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. --Chaucer. 2. A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] --Sir W. Scott \Bode\, n. [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See {Bode}, v. t.] A messenger; a herald. --Robertson. \Bode\, n. [See {Abide}.] A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.] \Bode\, imp. & p. p. from {Bide}. Abode. There that night they bode. --Tennyson. \Bode\, p. p. of {Bid}. Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer. |
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