Omen

Noun

 * 1) Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
 * 2) * 1856:, , Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
 * Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
 * 1) prophetic significance
 * a sign of ill omen

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:omen

Related terms

 * ominous

Verb

 * 1) To be an omen of.
 * 2) To divine or predict from omens.

Thesaurus
actuarial prediction, adumbrate, adumbration, apocalypse, augur, augury, auspicate, auspice, betoken, betokening, betokenment, bode, boding, danger sign, early symptom, falling barometer, forebode, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshow, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, foretoken, foretokening, forewarning, gathering clouds, guesswork, harbinger, have a hunch, have an intimation, high sign, improbability, indicant, indication, portend, portent, precursor, predict, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, preindication, preliminary sign, premonition, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prodroma, prodrome, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, quarantine flag, red flag, red light, shadow, shadow forth, sign, skull and crossbones, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, storm petrel, stormy petrel, symptom, thundercloud, thunderhead, token, tokening, type, vaticination, warning sign, warning signal, yellow flag, yellow jack

Etymology
From omen:

Noun

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 * Serbian: znamenje, predznak , predskazanje , kob

Anagrams

 * nome, Nome

Noun

 * 1) an omen

Related terms

 * ominatio
 * ominator
 * ominari
 * ominosus