bode Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb indicate by signs
    omen; prefigure; auspicate; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; foretell; augur; prognosticate; forecast; presage.
    • These signs bode bad news

WordNet

Bode transitive verb
Etymology
OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. boa to announce, Sw. båda to announce, portend. See Bid.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Boded; present participle & verbal noun Boding
Definitions
  1. 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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To foreshow something; to augur.
    Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.
    Syn. -- To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
Bode noun
Definitions
  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 noun
Etymology
AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t.
Definitions
  1. A messenger; a herald. Robertson.
Bode noun
Etymology
See Abide.
Definitions
  1. A stop; a halting; delay. Obs.
Bode imp. & p. p. from Bide
Definitions
  1. Abode.
    There that night they bode. Tennyson.
Bode past participle
Definitions
  1. of Bid. Bid or bidden. Obs. Chaucer.

Webster 1913