bode

About 0.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb Of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of (something); to portend.
2. verb Of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of (something); to portend.
3. verb To declare (something, such as a future event) before it occurs; to foretell, to predict; specifically, to predict (something undesirable); to forebode.
4. verb Often followed by ill or well: of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of something.
5. noun A feeling that something is going to happen; a premonition, a presentiment.
6. noun An indication, an omen, a sign.
7. noun An indication, an omen, a sign.
8. noun A message; also, news, tidings.

Similar words

portend presage omen foretell prognosticate forecast prefigure foreshadow predict auspicate

Often followed by

well plot diagram plots and ill diagrams no et

Word family

bide boded bodes boding