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Omen vs Bode - What's the difference?

omen | bode |

As nouns the difference between omen and bode

is that omen is something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding while bode is an omen; a foreshadowing.

As verbs the difference between omen and bode

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

As a proper noun Bode is

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omen

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia omen)
  • Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
    • the ghost's appearance was an ill omen
    a rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
    the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen
  • * 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen . Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
  • prophetic significance
    • a sign of ill omen

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "omen": good, ill, bad, auspicious, evil, favorable, happy, lucky.

    Synonyms

    * portent, sign, signal, token, forewarning, warning, danger sign, foreshadowing, prediction, forecast, prophecy, harbinger, augury, auspice, presage, straw in the wind, (hand)writing on the wall, indication, hint, foretoken; see also

    Related terms

    * ominous

    Verb

  • To be an omen of.
  • To divine or predict from omens.

    • Synonyms

    * prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell, portend, foreshadow, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presage

    See also

    * augury * foreboding * portend * portent

    External links

    * *

    Anagrams

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    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 ----