BODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bode mean? 

• BODE (verb)
  The verb BODE has 1 sense:

1. indicate, as with a sign or an omen

  Familiarity information: BODE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bode    ... he / she / it bodes   
Past simple: boded   
Past participle: boded   
-ing form: boding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicate, as with a sign or an omen

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate

Context example:

These signs bode bad news

Hypernyms (to "bode" is one way to...):

bespeak; betoken; indicate; point; signal (be a signal for or a symptom of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bode"):

threaten (to be a menacing indication of something)

foreshow (foretell by divine inspiration)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

“So much the worse!” thought Catherine; such ill-timed exercise was of a piece with the strange unseasonableness of his morning walks, and boded nothing good.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Those dates bode well for an exceptionally romantic time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“I fear, lady, that what you have said bodes but small good for her.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There, in the centre of it, was lying that ill-boding pile of time-stained, mildewed cards, just as Boy Jim and I had seen them years before.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Then what are you going to do?" she demanded again, with a tense, quiet utterance that boded an outbreak.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

For two days and nights he neither ate nor drank, and during those two days and nights of torment, he accumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever first fell foul of him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

This child’s disposition is abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty’s sake, and whether he derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their power.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew not what wild beast we were about to hunt down in the dark jungle of criminal London, but I was well assured, from the bearing of this master huntsman, that the adventure was a most grave one—while the sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jupiter’s close conjunction to the Sun bodes well for your love life—if single, to find your one true love now or in the months ahead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

ALL through that weary night my uncle and I, with Belcher, Berkeley Craven, and a dozen of the Corinthians, searched the country side for some trace of our missing man, but save for that ill-boding splash upon the road not the slightest clue could be obtained as to what had befallen him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)