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Bode
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A male given name.
- 3 A city in Iowa.
- 4 A village in Nepal.
- 5 A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale
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- 6 A small river and tributary to the Wipper
- 1 An omen; a foreshadowing.
- 2 A bid; an offer. dialectal, obsolete
"What bode ye shall to your lord bear?"
- 3 A herald; a messenger.
"[T]he fame of the Duke's coming was sent abroad by the bodes or messengers, despatched to prepare the towns through which he was to pass for an arrival sooner than expected, […]"
- 4 A stop; a halting; delay.
- 1 To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. ambitransitive
"O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound, And crown what I profess with kind event If I speak true; if hollowly invert What best is boded me to mischief: I, Beyond all limit of what else i' th' world, Do love, prize, honour you."
- 2 simple past of bide form-of, past
- 3 indicate, as with a sign or an omen wordnet
- 4 To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. intransitive, usually
"Whatever now / The omen prove, it boded well to you."
Etymology
Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodōn, from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”). See bid. Noun from Middle English bod, from Old English bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“message, offer”). Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode.
Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodōn, from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”). See bid. Noun from Middle English bod, from Old English bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“message, offer”). Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode.
From Middle English bod, from Old English bod (“a bidding”), from Proto-West Germanic *bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“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.
From Middle English bode, from Old English boda (“messenger, forerunner”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodō, from Proto-Germanic *budô (“messenger”); related to the verb (etymology 1). Cognate with Dutch bode (“messenger, harbinger”), German Bote (“messenger”).
From Middle English bod, bode, bade, baide, partially a clipping of Middle English abod (“a stopping”), and partially continuing Old English bād (“a waiting, expectation”), from Proto-West Germanic *baidu, from Proto-Germanic *baidō.
Inflected form of bide.
* As a Dutch and German surname, from bode (“messenger”). * As a German and Danish surname, from the name Bodo, derived from Old Saxon bodo (“messenger”), related to above. * As a Dutch and German surname, from Bude (“booth, small house”).
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