omen

noun
/ˈəʊ̯mən/UK/ˈoʊ̯mən/US

Etymology

From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).

  1. derived from ōmen

Definitions

  1. Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or…

    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.
  2. A thing of prophetic significance.

    • A sign of ill omen.
  3. To be an omen of.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. To divine or predict from omens.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at omen. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at omen. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at omen

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA