Bide vs Bode - What's the difference?
bide | bode |
(transitive, chiefly, dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
* Milton
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
(archaic) To wait for; to await.
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 bide and bode
is that bide is to bear; to endure; to tolerate 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
- All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "bide")Usage notes
* The verb has been replaced by (abide) in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression (term, bide one's time).Derived terms
* bide one's time * abidebode
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 .