forebode
English
/fɔːˈbəʊd/
verb
Definitions
- To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
- To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English foreboden inherited from Old English forebodian prefix from English bode (portend, presage, announce).
Origin
English
bode
Gloss
portend, presage, announce
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Cognates and derived terms
- bode English
- bodeful English
- bodement English
- forbode English
- forebodement English
- foreboder English
- *furaibudōną Proto-Germanic
- bodian Old English
- forebodian Old English
- boden Middle English
- foreboden Middle English