[
UK
/bɪtˈəʊkən/
]
VERB
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indicate, as with a sign or an omen
These signs bode bad news -
be a signal for or a symptom of
The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued
Her behavior points to a severe neurosis
These symptoms indicate a serious illness
How To Use betoken In A Sentence
- Could it be that the this turning of the greatest of the beasts of structure, corporations, could betoken an even more significant change?
- He gave her a kiss that betokened his affection.
- They betokened their fidelity to the leader with a vow.
- Don't assume all English accents betoken toffishness. Hit & Run
- This is a tale of a nervous breakdown that may betoken a mental illness such as psychosis. 2009 April 27 « One-Minute Book Reviews
- If, between the two, an outline faintly emerges of something betokening a system - implied through the press-release fog - then we shall have something to test against and compare with other documented cases affecting films.
- Everything, in short, betokened that Mr. Stuart was on the high road to fortune. Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific
- Does this betoken a sea change Irish political tastes since the birth of the tiger?
- Disencumbered of its books, the feudal turret had become warlike again and that Guer-mantes was more himself in death — he was more of his breed, a Guermantes and nothing more and this was symbolised at his funeral in the church of Saint-Hilaire-de-Combray hung with black draperies where the “G” under the closed coronet divested of initials and titles betokened the race of Guermantes which he personified in death. Time Regained
- It is just as true that the endless portrayals of the life of Christ in medieval art, as well as acting as one of the main forms of religious instruction, betoken an obsessive desire to grasp the essence of the God-man.
