omen

Meaning

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.
2. A thing of prophetic significance.

Verb

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

Synonyms

sign

portent

presage

augury

premonition

indication

harbinger

prognostic

prognostication

foretoken

foreboding

foreshadow

precursor

token

auspice

warning

⚠️

signal

mark

augur

bode

portend

prognosticate

prodigy

betoken

symptom

hint

forecast

fortune

prefigure

prognosis

forewarning

auspicate

signs

predict

foretell

prophecy

clue

prefigurement

symption

nucleoskeleton

meaning

ouverture

abode

announce

badge

brand

cause

character

destiny

emblem

evidence

expectation

fate

bodement

figure

forebode

forerunner

ideogram

index

luck

🍀

oracle

portending

predictor

prelude

presentiment

preview

promise

prophet

significance

soothsay

spell

symbol

treadle

weird

previous notice

symptoms

prophetic sign

forbode

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈəʊmən/

Etymology

From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).