Bode Definition

bōd
boded, bodes, boding
verb
boded, bodes, boding
To be an omen of.
Heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft.
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Webster's New World
To announce in advance; predict.
Webster's New World
To be an omen of; presage.
Webster's New World

(intransitive) To foreshow something; to augur.

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noun
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A messenger; a herald.
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A stop; a halting; delay.
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pronoun

A surname​.

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A city in Iowa.

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A village in Nepal.

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A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale.

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A small river and tributary to the Wipper.
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idiom
bode ill (<i>or</i> well)
  • to be a bad (or good) omen
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bode

Noun

Singular:
bode
Plural:
bodes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Bode

  • bode ill (or well)

Origin of Bode

  • From Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, perceive fully”). Related to Old English boda (“messenger, forerunner”), Dutch bode (“messenger, harbinger”), German Bote (“messenger”), from Proto-Germanic *budô (“messenger”). See bid. Compare also Old Saxon gibod, German Gebot, Old Norse boð).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English boden from Old English bodian to announce bheudh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • inflected form of bide

    From Wiktionary

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