Omen \O"men\, n. [L. omen, the original form being osmen,
according to Varro.]
An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of,
some future event; any indication or action regarded as a
foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
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Bid go with evil omen, and the brand
Of infamy upon my name. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Omen \O"men\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Omened; p. pr. & vb. n.
Omening.]
To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens
or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen
ill of an enterprise.
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The yet unknown verdict, of which, however, all omened
the tragical contents. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
omen
n : a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen
before going into battle" [syn: portent, presage, prognostic,
prognostication, prodigy]
v : indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode,
portend, auspicate, prognosticate, presage, betoken,
foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast,
predict]
WordNet (r) 2.0
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "omen":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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