BODING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boding mean? 

• BODING (noun)
  The noun BODING has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of evil to come

  Familiarity information: BODING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of evil to come

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

boding; foreboding; premonition; presentiment

Context example:

the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case

Hypernyms ("boding" is a kind of...):

apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boding"):

shadow (a premonition of something adverse)

presage (a foreboding about what is about to happen)

 Context examples 

There, in the centre of it, was lying that ill-boding pile of time-stained, mildewed cards, just as Boy Jim and I had seen them years before.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We came at last to the wooden gate with the high stone pillars by the roadside, and, looking through between the rails, we saw the long avenue of oaks, and at the end of this ill-boding tunnel, the pale face of the house glimmered in the moonshine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The day may come when it may look back regretfully to the snug nest in the thornbush, but what does it reck of that when spring is in the air and youth in its blood, and the old hawk of trouble has not yet darkened the sunshine with the ill-boding shadow of its wings?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

ALL through that weary night my uncle and I, with Belcher, Berkeley Craven, and a dozen of the Corinthians, searched the country side for some trace of our missing man, but save for that ill-boding splash upon the road not the slightest clue could be obtained as to what had befallen him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)