Omen

/ˈəʊmən/

noun

  1. Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.

    a rise in imports might be an omen of economic recovery

  2. A thing of prophetic significance.

    a sign of ill omen

Synonyms: augury, auspice, danger, forecast, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger

verb

  1. To be an omen of.

  2. To divine or predict from omens.

Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, portend

omen

词典条目

导入更多词典

Loading dictionaries...

Initializing dictionary manager

+