Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be an omen of.
- intransitive verb Archaic To predict; foretell.
- intransitive verb To be an omen; portend.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A messenger; a herald; one who announces or conveys a message.
- noun A command; an order.
- noun An announcement; a message.
- noun Omen; premonition; augury.
- noun A foreboding; presentiment.
- noun A bid; the price offered by a buyer or asked by a seller.
- Preterit and past participle of bide.
- To bid for; make an offer for; buy.
- noun A stop; delay.
- Bidden; commanded.
- To announce; proclaim; preach.
- To decree; command; bid.
- To announce beforehand; prognosticate; predict; presage.
- To portend; augur; be an omen or indication of; betoken: with a non-personal subject.
- To forebode or have a presentiment of (ill, or coming disaster).
- Synonyms To augur, betoken, portend.
- To promise; portend: with well or ill: as, this bodes well for your success.
- To presage something evil; be of evil omen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A messenger; a herald.
- noun obsolete A stop; a halting; delay.
- transitive verb To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
- intransitive verb To foreshow something; to augur.
- past participle obsolete Bid or bidden.
- noun obsolete An omen; a foreshadowing.
- noun Obs. or Dial. A bid; an offer.
- imperative, past participle Abode.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
- verb intransitive To foreshow something; to
augur . - noun An
omen ; aforeshadowing . - noun A
bid ; an offer. A messenger; a herald. - noun A stop; a halting; delay.
- verb Simple past of
bide .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb indicate by signs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Planetary and moon formation seems to follow a rule called bode's law which has each planet roughly twice as far out as the previous one, though there is still controversy about this.
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Still, the close calls bode well for Blyleven and Alomar in the future.
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[349] Abode is an old English word signifying omen or prognostic, -- from "bode," to portend.
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That is, if we "bode" or earnestly wish for an article or result, we will get at least something approaching to it.
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The furniture design foundation degree was scrapped last year, which doesn't bode well.
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The brighter production picture could bode well for other Japan's auto makers that have yet to issue their earnings and output forecasts.
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That brighter outlook could bode well for other Japanese auto makers that have yet to issue their earnings and output forecasts.
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Barclays Capital, for instance, revised up its growth forecast for the first quarter to 3.6% from 1.6%, and to 2.7% from 0.8% for the following period, as "U.S. and Chinese leading indicators bode well for exports."
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