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Bode

Bode Meaning & Definition
Bode Definition And Meaning

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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