Entry Word: bode

Function: verb

Meaning: to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome <her natural gift for reading boded well for her future in school>

Synonyms augur, forebode (also forbode), promise

Related Words forecast, foretell, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy; forewarn, warn; anticipate, divine, foreknow, foresee; foreshadow, portend, prefigure; allude, connote, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, suggest

Phrases bid fair, give promise of