Bode

Quick meaning: Bode is a verb meaning Of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of (something); to portend.

Meaning

Of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of (something); to portend.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) Often followed by ill or well: of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of something.
2. A feeling that something is going to happen; a premonition, a presentiment.
3. An indication, an omen, a sign.
4. A message; also, news, tidings.
5. (Northern England, Scotland) An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something; a bid.
6. (transitive, Scotland) To make a bid or offer for (something); to bid, to offer.
7. To declare (something, such as a future event) before it occurs; to foretell, to predict; specifically, to predict (something undesirable); to forebode.

Example Sentences

But so much haste bodes / Right little speed, and— […]

There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.

Forgive my Impatience: But my preſaging Mind bodes horrid Miſchiefs!

Augur accurſt! denouncing Miſchief ſtill, / Prophet of Plagues, for ever boding Ill!

Word Forms

• bodes
• boding
• boded
• bodest
• bodedst
• bodeth

Synonyms for bode

Depending on context, synonyms include betoken, augur, presage, anticipate, call, divine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include portend, presage, omen, foretell, prognosticate, forecast.

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