Bode

//bəʊd// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A male given name.
  3. 3
    A city in Iowa.
  4. 4
    A village in Nepal.
  5. 5
    A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale
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  1. 6
    A small river and tributary to the Wipper
Noun
  1. 1
    An omen; a foreshadowing.
  2. 2
    A bid; an offer. dialectal, obsolete

    "What bode ye shall to your lord bear?"

  3. 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. 4
    A stop; a halting; delay.
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    simple past of bide form-of, past
  3. 3
    indicate, as with a sign or an omen wordnet
  4. 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

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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.

Etymology 4

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”).

Etymology 5

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.

Etymology 6

Inflected form of bide.

Etymology 7

* 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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