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Definition bode

Etymology 1

Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-Germanic *bud?n? (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“to be awake, perceive fully”). See bid.

Noun from Middle English bod, from Old English bod, from Proto-Germanic *bud? (“message, offer”).

Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode.

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
2. (intransitive, followed by well or ill) To betoken or augur something good or bad that would happen in the future.

Noun

bode (plural bodes)

1. An omen; a foreshadowing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bod, from Old English bod (“a bidding”), from Proto-Germanic *bud? (“a bidding, offer”). Cognate with Swedish bud, Dutch bod, Icelandic boð, Faroese boð, Norwegian Nynorsk bod, Norwegian Bokmål bud. Compare also Old Saxon gibod, German Gebot. See bid.

Noun

bode (plural bodes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) A bid; an offer.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bode, from Old English boda (“messenger, forerunner”), from Proto-Germanic *budô (“messenger”). Cognate with Dutch bode (“messenger, harbinger”), German Bote (“messenger”).

Noun

bode (plural bodes)

1. A messenger; a herald.

Etymology 4

From Middle English bod, abod (“a stopping”).

Noun

bode (plural bodes)

1. A stop; a halting; delay.

Etymology 5

Inflected form of bide.

Verb

bode

1. simple past tense of bide

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