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portent
Prophetic or threatening significance:
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  1. Prophetic or threatening significance:
  2. An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen.
  3. Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
augury
The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
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  1. The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
  2. A sign of something coming; an omen:
  3. An omen; portent; indication
indication
Something that serves to indicate; a sign:
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  1. Something that serves to indicate; a sign:
  2. Something indicated as necessary or expedient:
  3. The act of indicating:
augury
The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
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  1. The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
  2. An omen; portent; indication
  3. A sign of something coming; an omen:
forerunner
One that precedes, as in time; a predecessor.
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  1. One that precedes, as in time; a predecessor.
  2. A sign that tells or warns of something to follow; prognostic
  3. A warning sign or symptom.
foretoken
A prophetic sign; omen; prognostic
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  1. A prophetic sign; omen; prognostic
portent
An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen.
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  1. An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen.
  2. Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
  3. Prophetic or threatening significance:
prefigurement
That which is prefigured.
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  1. That which is prefigured.
  2. The act of prefiguring; prefiguration.
  3. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
presage
Prophetic significance or meaning.
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  1. Prophetic significance or meaning.
  2. A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment.
  3. A sign or warning of a future event; omen; portent; augury
prognostic
A sign or indication of things to come; omen
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  1. A sign or indication of things to come; omen
  2. A sign or symptom indicating the future course of a disease.
  3. A sign of a future happening; a portent.
prognostication
A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
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  1. A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
sign
Sign language.
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  1. Sign language.
  2. A posted notice bearing a designation, direction, or command:
  3. Sign of the zodiac
Find another word for omen. In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for omen, like: portent, augury, indication, sign, augury, forerunner, foretoken, portent, prefigurement, presage and prognostic.

Sentence Examples

  • It's a bad omen of things to come.

  • 7) that it was an omen of death to dream of seeing one's reflection in water.

  • During his confinement by Tiberius a like omen had been interpreted as portending his speedy release, with the warning that should he behold the same sight again he would die within five days.

  • By the powers of the Quadruple Alliance this event was regarded as of the most sinister omen, and the question was even raised of a fresh armed intervention in France under the terms of the secret treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

  • Of all such cases it is enough to say that it is impossible for the serious inquirer to establish any causal connexion between the omen and the event which it is presumed to foreshadow.

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