omens

NOUN

sign of something to come

Synonyms

STRONGEST

harbinger indication portent premonition

STRONG

augury auspice boding foreboding foretoken presage prognostic prognostication prophecy straw warning

WEAK

bodement writing on the wall

Example Sentences

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Let Caius Flaminius be absent from your thoughts, even for the omen's sake.

From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livius, Titus

I would, the omen's truth to show, That I could meet this elfin foe!

From Marmion by Morley, Henry

Brass was their wealth of old; though now the better omen's gold, And the new metal from the field has fairly beat the old.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various