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Bade vs Bode - What's the difference?

bade | bode |

As verbs the difference between bade and bode

is that bade is simple past of bid while bode is to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.

As a noun bode is

an omen; a foreshadowing.

As a proper noun Bode is

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bade

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bid)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=22 citation , passage=Pancho, the major-domo, came up to say that Colonel Morales was waiting below. Appleby bade him bring out cigars and wine, and rose from his seat when Morales came in.}}

    Usage notes

    The inflected form bade', like the form bidden, is archaic. It remains in marginal use, particularly regarding greetings as in “'''bade farewell”, but uninflected bid is significantly more common.Bid, bade, bidden”, ''Grammarist

    References

    bode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode

    Verb

    (bod)
  • To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
  • To foreshow something; to augur.
  • * Dryden
  • Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
    Derived terms
    * bodement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An omen; a foreshadowing.
  • * Chaucer
  • The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
  • (obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
  • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • A messenger; a herald.
  • (Robertson)
  • A stop; a halting; delay.
  • Etymology 2

    *

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bide)
  • * Tennyson
  • There that night they bode .

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bode&searchmode=none]