0 past simple and past participle of bode
1 to be a sign of something that will happen in the future, usually something very good or bad:
Included among these were financial restructuring and privatisation masterplans that boded well for capital market growth.
By the 1930s, the belief that pre-initiation pregnancies boded ill fortune for clan, chief and community was highly contested, but it was far from extinct.
All of which would not have boded well for some of the last government's cherished policies.
For them not to do so would have led to a deterioration in their image which would not have boded well for them.
In its final form, the financial perspective boded difficulties that manifested themselves in preparing the budget for 2008.
Bottles were thrown at the club windows, and appearances boded no good to the club and its inmates.
Nevertheless, reaching the national final was a monumental feat for a second year franchise, and boded well for the future.
Although this was mere fancy, it boded ill for the larger aircraft.
