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Intimate vs Betoken - What's the difference?

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Intimate is a related term of betoken.


As verbs the difference between intimate and betoken

is that intimate is to suggest or disclose discreetly while betoken is signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.

As an adjective intimate

is closely acquainted; familiar.

As a noun intimate

is a very close friend.

intimate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Closely acquainted; familiar.
    • an intimate friend
    He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
  • Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
    • She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
  • Personal; private.
    • an intimate setting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very close friend.
    • Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
  • (in plural intimates ) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
    • You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.

    Synonyms

    * (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousin

    Verb

    (intimat)
  • To suggest or disclose discreetly.
  • * '>citation
    •     The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
        [...]
        Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
    He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.

    Related terms

    * intimacy * intimation

    External links

    * * English heteronyms English intransitive verbs ----

    betoken

    English

    Verb

  • Signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
  • * 1557 : ?], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4bZPHQAACAAJ&dq=betokeneth&ei=d6N7SafwL5P2Mdas2JYE page unknown (Ihon Kyngstone)
    • There be other 2 signes in often use of which the first is made thus?+?and betokeneth' more?:?the other is thus made?–?and ' betokeneth lesse.
  • Foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
  • * 1853 : , page 474 (Harper & Brothers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, New York)
    • “?Ah?!?hospitable land, thou (nevertheless) betokenest' war,” ''i.?e.'', although hospitable, thou nevertheless '''betokenest war.?—?''Bello .

    Synonyms

    * (signify) indicate, mark, note * (foreshow) portend, presage

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