bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen; “These signs bode bad news”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Bode
A surname.
A male given name
A city in Iowa
A village in Nepal
A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale
A small river and tributary to the Wipper
• Debo, Obed, bedo
bode (third-person singular simple present bodes, present participle boding, simple past and past participle boded)
(transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
Synonyms: portend, presage, foreshow
(intransitive, followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
bode (plural bodes)
An omen; a foreshadowing.
bode (plural bodes)
(obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.
bode (plural bodes)
A messenger; a herald.
bode (plural bodes)
A stop; a halting; delay.
bode
simple past tense of bide
• Debo, Obed, bedo
Source: Wiktionary
Bode, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding.] Etym: [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo to announce, Sw. bĂĄda to announce, portend. sq. root89. See Bid.]
Definition: To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.
Bode, v. i.
Definition: To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.
Syn.
– To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
Bode, n.
1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer.
2. A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] Sir W. Scott
Bode, n. Etym: [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t.]
Definition: A messenger; a herald. Robertson.
Bode, n. Etym: [See Abide.]
Definition: A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
Bode, imp. & p. p. from Bide.
Definition: Abode. There that night they bode. Tennyson.
Bode, p. p.
Definition: of Bid. Bid or bidden. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Bide, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bided; p. pr. & vb. n. Biding.] Etym: [OE. biden, AS. bidan; akin to OHG. bitan, Goth. beidan, Icel. bi; perh. orig., to wait with trust, and akin to bid. See Bid, v. t., and cf. Abide.]
1. To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay. All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.
2. To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be. Shak.
Bide, v. t.
1. To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.
2. To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
