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omen

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈəʊ̯mən/
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/ˈəʊ̯mən/ · /ˈɵ̞ʊ̯mən/ · /ˈoʊ̯mən/ · /ˈɔʊ̯mən/

Definition of omen

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

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.
    “The ghost's appearance was an ill omen.”
    “A rise in imports might be an omen of economic recovery.”
    “The egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen.”
    “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.”
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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.
    “The ghost's appearance was an ill omen.”
    “A rise in imports might be an omen of economic recovery.”
    “The egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen.”
    “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.”
  2. A thing of prophetic significance.
    “A sign of ill omen.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To be an omen of.
  2. (intransitive)To divine or predict from omens.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).

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