Portentous; ominous; foreboding.

(transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.

An omen; a foreshadowing.

(obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.

A herald; a messenger.

A stop; a halting; delay.

simple past tense of bide

A surname. / A male given name / A city in Iowa / A village in Nepal / A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale / A small river and tributary to the Wipper

simple past tense and past participle of bode

gerund of bode: a prediction of disaster; an omen, a portent.