bode¹ Definition
bode (bōd)
transitive verb bod′ed, bod′·ing
- Archaic to announce in advance; predict
- to be an omen of; presage
Etymology: ME bodien < OE bodian < boda, messenger, prob. < IE base of bid
bode¹ Idioms
bode ill (or well)
to be a bad (or good) omen
bode² Definition
bode (bōd)
intransitive verb, transitive verb
bode Usage Examples
Preposition: for
- t.: Millionaire's 14,000 mile bike ride Busy Easter bodes well for summer t..
- future: Such findings did not bode well for the future.
- rest: To hear the cuckoo on ones right hand side bodes well for the rest of the year.
- season: A personal best indoors, which bodes well for the new outdoor season which starts in April.
- album: A welcome return which bodes well for the new album.
- success: The track record of sound policy design and implementation in recent years bodes well for continued success in a more uncertain world economy.
Adjective complement
- ill: A ghostly child, sometimes seen in the corridors, whose presence bodes ill.
- good: Thus a very serious situation is rapidly developing which bodes no good for the world.
- evil: Certain signs boded evil, and certain others boded good.
Modifying Another Word
- well: A very rapid showing in the last Combe round bodes well for Jensen's return to the British GP venue.
- ill: This example bodes ill for the rest of us.
- badly: Such differences bode badly for any hope of establishing a common international code of practice.
- certainly: The episode also provides a rather good alien spacecraft which certainly bodes well for the return of Doctor Who in 2005.
- n't: Quot today going coverage are does n't bode well do know what's.
- all: It all bodes well for the album ' Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants ' which is due on the 28th February.
Preposition: in
term: The absence of class politics in your apolitical approach doesn't bode well in the long term.
Browse dictionary entries near bode
- ‹ bodacious
- ‹ bod
- ‹ bock
- ‹ Bochum
- ‹ Boche
- ‹ Boccioni, Umberto
- ‹ Boccioni
- ‹ boccie
- ‹ Boccherini
- ‹ Boccaccio
- bodega ›
- Bodenheim, Maxwell ›
- Bodensee ›
- bodhisattva ›
- bodhran ›
- bodice ›
- bodice-ripper ›
- -bodied ›
- bodiless ›
- bodily ›

