Bade vs Bode - What's the difference?
bade | bode |
(bid)
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=22
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
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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English
Verb
(head)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
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Anagrams
* * * English irregular simple past forms ----bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .