Word Meanings - BETOKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen

Additional info about word: BETOKEN

1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm. Syn. -- To presage; portend; indicate; mark; note.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BETOKEN)

• Bespeak
• Betoken
• foreorder
• forestall
• provide
• prearrange
• indicate
• evidence
• Bode
• Foretell
• betoken
• foreshadow
• presage
• predict
• prophesy
• promise
• forebode
• herald
• announce
• prognosticate
• portend
• augur
• Predict
• preindicate
• foreshow
• forewarn
• Indicate
• Show
• betray
• evince
• manifest
• declare
• specify
• denote
• point out
• designate
• mark
• Portend
• threaten
• forbode

Related words: (words related to BETOKEN)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• EVINCE
  1. To conquer; to subdue. Error by his own arms is best evinced. Milton. 2. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• PROVIDENCE
  A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
• AUGUR
  An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. 2. One who foretells events by omens;
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
• AUGURER
  An augur. Shak.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• FOREPROMISED
  Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.