English Explanatory Dictionary

forbode

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
verb
  1. obsolete simple past of forbid.
verb
  1. Alternative form of forebode.

Word forms

forbode forbodes forbod forboding forboded

Etymology

From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *frabudą (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, fully perceive”), equivalent to for- + bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.

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