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verb (used with object)
1.
to be an omen of; portend: The news bodes evil days for him.
2.
Archaic. to announce beforehand; predict.
verb (used without object)
3.
to portend: The news bodes well for him.
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Bode
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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English boden, Old English bodian to announce, foretell (cognate with Old Norse botha), derivative of boda messenger, cognate with German Bote, Old Norse bothi
before 1000; Middle English boden, Old English bodian to announce, foretell (cognate with Old Norse botha), derivative of boda messenger, cognate with German Bote, Old Norse bothi
Example Sentences
- The trade squabbles do not bode well for efforts to make trade freer in the region.
- Nor does the fiscal outlook bode well for retail spending.
- Given the known size of the universe, it does not bode well for intelligent aliens close by.
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verb
a simple past tense of bide.
verb (used without object)
Idiom3.
to dwell; abide; wait; remain.
4.
bide one's time, to wait for a favorable opportunity: He wanted to ask for a raise, but bided his time.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English biden, Old English bīdan; cognate with Old Frisian bīdia, Old Saxon bīdan, Old High German bītan, Old Norse bītha, Gothic beidan, Latin fīdere, Greek peíthesthai to trust, rely < Indo-European *bheidh-; the meaning apparently developed: have trust > endure > wait > abide > remain
before 900; Middle English biden, Old English bīdan; cognate with Old Frisian bīdia, Old Saxon bīdan, Old High German bītan, Old Norse bītha, Gothic beidan, Latin fīdere, Greek peíthesthai to trust, rely < Indo-European *bheidh-; the meaning apparently developed: have trust > endure > wait > abide > remain
Related forms
bid·er, noun
Synonyms
3. stay, linger, tarry.
3. stay, linger, tarry.
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| bode2 (bəʊd) | |
| —vb | |
| the past tense of bide | |
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Word Origin & History
bide
O.E. bidan "to stay, continue, live, remain," also "to trust, rely" (cognate of O.N. biða, O.Fris. bidia, Goth. beidan "to wait"), apparently from PIE *bheidh-, an extended stem of one root of O.E. biddan (see bid), the original sense of which was "to command," and "to trust"
EXPAND(cf. Gk. peithein "to persuade," pistis "faith;" L. fidere "to trust," foedus "compact, treaty," O.C.S. beda "need"). Perhaps the sense evolved in prehistoric times through "endure," and "endure a wait," to "to wait." Preserved in Scotland and northern England, replaced elsewhere by abide in all senses except to bide one's time.
bode
O.E. bodian "proclaim, announce; foretell," from boda "messenger," probably from P.Gmc. *budon- (cf. O.S. gibod, Ger. gebot, O.N. boð), from PIE *bheudh- "be aware, make aware" (cf. bid). As a shortened form of forebode (usually evil), it dates from 1740.
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