About The Word Portent
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Portent
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What's The Definition Of Portent?
[n] a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Portent: omen | presage | prognostic | prognostication Related Terms | Find terms related to Portent: 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 See Also | augury | auspice | death knell | foreboding | foretoken | preindication | sign Portent In Webster's Dictionary \Por*tent"\ (?; 277), n. [L. portentum. See {Portend}.]
That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends
evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. --Shak.
My loss by dire portents the god foretold. --Dryden.
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