Bode vs Oxford - What's the difference?
bode | oxford |
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
A city in England famous for its university.
(Oxford University)
A city in Alabama
A city in Arkansas
A town in Connecticut
An unincorporated community in Florida
A city in Georgia, USA
A city in Idaho
A town in Indiana
A city in Iowa
A city in Kansas
An unincorporated community in Kentucky
A town in Maine
A town in Maryland
A town in Massachusetts
A village in Michigan
A city in Mississippi
A village in Nebraska
A town in New York
A town in New Zealand
A city in North Carolina
A town in Nova Scotia
A city in Ohio
A borough in Pennsylvania
An unincorporated community in West Virginia
A town in Wisconsin
A variety of shoe, typically made of heavy leather.
(by ellipsis) An Oxford Dictionary.
As nouns the difference between bode and oxford
is that bode is an omen; a foreshadowing while Oxford is a variety of shoe, typically made of heavy leather.As proper nouns the difference between bode and oxford
is that bode is {{surname} while Oxford is a city in England famous for its university.As a verb bode
is to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.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 .
