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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To be or give a sign or portent of. See Synonyms at indicate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To signify; mean; denote in words.
  2. To be a token of; be a visible sign of; give promise of.
  3. To foreshow by signs; be or furnish a premonition of; indicate the probability of: as, this fact betokens a good result.
  4. To give evidence of; show.
  5. Synonyms To signify; presage, portend, augur, bode.

Wiktionary

  1. v. Signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
  2. v. Foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
  2. v. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. indicate by signs
  2. v. be a signal for or a symptom of

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English bitoknen, bitacnen, from Old English betācnian ("to betoken, signify, designate"), equivalent to be- +‎ token. Cognate with Dutch betekenen ("to mean, signify"), German bezeichnen ("to call, designate"), Swedish beteckna ("to represent, designate, indicate"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English bitoknen : bi-, be- + toknen, to signify (from Old English tācnian; see deik- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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