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Webster 1913 Edition

Bode

Bode

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Boded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Boding
.]
[OE.
bodien
, AS.
bodian
to announce, tell from
bod
command; akin to Icel.
bo[GREEK]a
to announce, Sw.
båda
to announce, portend. √89. See
Bid
.]
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

,
Verb.
I.
To foreshow something; to augur.
Whatever now
The omen proved, it
boded
well to you.
Dryden.
Syn. – To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.

Bode

,
Noun.
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.
[AS.
boda
; akin to OFries.
boda
, AS.
bodo
, OHG.
boto
. See
Bode
,
Verb.
T.
]
A messenger; a herald.
Robertson.

Bode

,
Noun.
[See
Abide
.]
A stop; a halting; delay.
[Obs.]

Bode

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
from
Bide
.
Abode.
There that night they
bode
.
Tennyson.

Bode

,
p.
p.
of
Bid
.
Bid or bidden.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bode

BODE

,
Verb.
T.
To portend; to foreshow; to presage; to indicate something future by signs; to be the omen of; most generally applied to things; as, our vices bode evil to the country.

BODE

,
Verb.
I.
To foreshow; to presage.
This bodes well to you.

BODE

,
Noun.
An omen.
1.
A stop.

Definition 2024

Bode

Bode

See also: bode, bódé, bodě, and bøde

English

Proper noun

Bode

  1. A surname​.
  2. A city in Iowa
  3. A village in Nepal
  4. A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale
  5. A small river and tributary to the Wipper

Derived terms

bode

bode

See also: Bode, bøde, bodě, and bódé

English

Verb

bode ‎(third-person singular simple present bodes, present participle boding, simple past and past participle boded)

  1. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
  2. (intransitive) To foreshow something; to augur.
    • Dryden
      Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Translations
Derived terms

Noun

bode ‎(plural bodes)

  1. An omen; a foreshadowing.
    • Chaucer
      The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
  2. (obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
  3. A messenger; a herald.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Robertson to this entry?)
  4. A stop; a halting; delay.

Etymology 2

Inflected form of bide.

Verb

bode

  1. simple past tense of bide
    • Tennyson
      There that night they bode.

References

  • “bode” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbodɛ/
  • Rhymes: -odɛ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧de

Noun

bode

  1. vocative singular of bod

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bode, from Old Dutch *bodo, from Proto-Germanic *budô. Related to Proto-Germanic *buþą (compare Old Swedish gibod).

Noun

bode m, f ‎(plural boden or bodes, diminutive bodetje n)

  1. messenger
  2. servant

Derived terms

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Verb

bode

  1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of bieden

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *bodo, from Proto-Germanic *budô.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔːdə/

Noun

bōde m

  1. messenger
  2. servant

Declension

Plautdietsch

Verb

bode

  1. to bathe, to lave

Portuguese

bode

Etymology

Unknown. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɔˑðɨ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔˑd͡ʒi/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔˑdi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔˑde/
  • Hyphenation: bo‧de

Noun

bode m (plural bodes)

  1. goat buck, billy goat

Synonyms

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bo‧de

Noun

bode m ‎(plural bodes)

  1. goat buck

Synonyms

Volapük

Noun

bode

  1. dative singular of bod

Etymology

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).

Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode

Pronunciation

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