omen
nounEtymology
From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).
- derived from ōmen
Definitions
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.
A thing of prophetic significance.
- A sign of ill omen.
To be an omen of.
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To divine or predict from omens.
The neighborhood
- synonymaugury
- synonymauspice
- synonymforeshadowing
- synonymforetoken
- synonymforewarning
- synonymharbinger
- synonymherald
- synonymhint
- synonymindication
- synonymoracle
- synonymportent
- synonymprediction
- neighborominous
- neighborabomination
- neighbororacle
- neighborpredict
- neighborboding
- neighborforeboding
- neighborwarning
- neighboraugury
- neighborportend
- neighborportent
- neighborstars are aligned
Derived
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.
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