Bode
[bəʊd]
Definition
(v. t.) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To foreshow something; to augur.
(n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.
(n.) A bid; an offer.
(v. t.) A messenger; a herald.
(n.) A stop; a halting; delay.
(imp. & p. p.) Abode.
(p. p.) Bid or bidden.
Editor: Paula
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Betoken, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, presage, augur, foretell, predict, forebode, prophesy, be ominous of.
v. n. Forebode, presage.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Foretell, betoken, foreshadow, presage, predict, prophesy, promise, forebode,herald, announce, prognosticate, portend, augur
ANT:Relate, record, narrate, remember
Typist: Molly
Definition
v.t. to portend or prophesy.—v.i. to be an omen: to foreshow.—adj. Bode′ful boding ominous.—n. Bode′ment an omen presentiment.—pr.p. Bod′ing presaging.—n. an omen or portent.
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Examples
- After that event Bode suggested that it was possible other astronomers had observed Uranus before, without recognizing it as a planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Those spouting geysers certainly don't bode any good, sir, nor that earthquake either. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Its distance is thirty times that of the earth from t he sun instead of thirty-nine times, as Bode's Law would require. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It bodes no good for us, O Prince, she said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I had heard that very voice ere this, and compulsory observation had forced on me a theory as to what it boded. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Possibly, if he had observed the brief interchange of signals, he might have thought that it boded no good to him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Her words, few as they were, betrayed a desperate clinging to the past which boded ill for the future. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As _you_ say, madame retorted, correcting him, and deftly knitting an extra something into his name that boded him no good. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There are croakers in every country always boding its ruin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Melinda