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Bode vs Portend - What's the difference?

bode | portend |

As verbs the difference between bode and portend

is that bode is to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow while portend is to serve as a warning or omen.

As a noun bode

is an omen; a foreshadowing.

As a proper noun Bode

is {{surname}.

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

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    Verb

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

    References

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

    Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----

    portend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to serve as a warning or omen
  • * John Milton, Paradise Lost
    • A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,
  • to signify; to denote
    • Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended , Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.}}

    Synonyms

    * foreshadow * presage

    Related terms

    * portent * portentous

    See also

    * harbinger