Definitions of bode

1. To portend; to be a sign; usually of ill.

2. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

3. A messenger; a herald.

4. To portend or prophesy.

5. To be an omen: to foreshow.

6. To foreshow; presage.

7. To foretell; to foreshadow; to portend; to be ominous.

8. Bid or bidden.

9. To portend; to be an omen of. See Bid.

10. An omen; a foreshadowing.

11. A bid; an offer.

12. A stop; a halting; delay.

13. Abode.