portent

portent
Synonyms and related words:
adumbration, advance notice, augury, auspice, balefulness, banefulness, betokening, betokenment, bodefulness, boding, direness, doomfulness, fatality, fatefulness, foreboding, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, forewarning, indicant, indication, marvel, meaning, miracle, omen, ominousness, phenomenon, plenty of notice, portentousness, precautioning, prefiguration, preindication, premonition, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prenotice, prenotification, presage, presagefulness, presentiment, presignifying, prewarning, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication, promise, sensation, shadow, sign, significance, sinisterness, soothsay, stunner, suggestiveness, token, tokening, type

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  • portent — [[t]pɔ͟ː(r)tent[/t]] portents N COUNT: oft N of n A portent is something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future. [FORMAL] The savage civil war there could be a portent of what s to come in the rest of the region... I hope this is a …   English dictionary

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