Bode

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To be an omen of: heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft.
  • v. Archaic To predict; foretell.
  • verb-intransitive. To be an omen; portend: The peace accord bodes well for the city under siege.
  • v. A past tense of bide.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
  • v. To foreshow something; to augur.
  • n. An omen; a foreshadowing.
  • n. A bid; an offer. A messenger; a herald.
  • n. A stop; a halting; delay.
  • v. Simple past of bide.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
  • verb-intransitive. To foreshow something; to augur.
  • n. An omen; a foreshadowing.
  • n. A bid; an offer.
  • n. A messenger; a herald.
  • n. A stop; a halting; delay.
  • imperative-and-past-participle. Abode.
  • past-participle. Bid or bidden.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A messenger; a herald; one who announces or conveys a message.
  • To announce; proclaim; preach.
  • To decree; command; bid.
  • To announce beforehand; prognosticate; predict; presage.
  • To portend; augur; be an omen or indication of; betoken: with a non-personal subject.
  • To forebode or have a presentiment of (ill, or coming disaster).
  • Synonyms To augur, betoken, portend.
  • To promise; portend: with well or ill: as, this bodes well for your success.
  • To presage something evil; be of evil omen.
  • n. A command; an order.
  • n. An announcement; a message.
  • n. Omen; premonition; augury.
  • n. A foreboding; presentiment.
  • n. A bid; the price offered by a buyer or asked by a seller.
  • To bid for; make an offer for; buy.
  • Preterit and past participle of bide.
  • n. A stop; delay.
  • Bidden; commanded.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. indicate by signs
  • Verb Form
    boded    bodes    boding   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    betoken    point    bespeak    indicate    signal   
    Hyponym
    foreshow    threaten   
    Form
    boded    boding    bodement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    foreshow    betoken    augur    foreshadow    forebode    omen    foreshadowing    bid    offer    messenger   
    Verb Stem
    bide   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rhode    abode    bestowed    bestrode    blowed    bowed    brode    busload    coad    code