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; a foreshadowing.
  • 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

[Middle English boden, from Old English bodian, to announce; see bheudh- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English boden, from Old English bodian ("announce, foretell"), from Proto-Germanic *budōnan (“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).

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Examples

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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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  • 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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