Verb
This could bode disaster for all involved.
her natural gift for reading boded well for her future in school
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Wallace also noted new unicorns, such as Juniper Square and Bilt, which bode well for the future of property tech investing.—Diana Olick, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025 That does not bode well for the rest of the season.—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 Now, the woman seems to be replete with suggestions, boding well for yet another January birthday to keep the holiday spirit going.—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025 The Intel chips here (Arrow Lake-H, Lunar Lake), the Apple M4, and the AMD Ryzen AI 375 were well behind the X2 Elite Extreme reference laptop, which also bodes well for the Qualcomm offering, but bear in mind a few possible caveats.—Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bode
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English, from Old English bodian; akin to Old English bēodan to proclaim — more at bid entry 1
First Known Use
Verb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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The first known use of bode was
before the 12th century
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