omen
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.
» This is a very bad omen.
Это очень плохой знак.
Это очень плохое предзнаменование.
Meaning
2 sensesSomething 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.
Omen
зна́мениеznámenije, предзнаменова́ниеpredznamenovánije
A thing of prophetic significance.
A sign of ill omen.
Omen
- a sign of something about to happen
Examples
43 sentencesThis is a very bad omen.
ruЭто очень плохой знак. — marafon
This is not a good omen.
This could be a bad omen.
This must be a bad omen.
This is truly a bad omen.
Translations
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Origin
From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).
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Forms
plural: omensSynonyms
26 synonyms- a sign of something about to happen:portentpresageprognosticprognosticationprodigy
Word family
7 related wordsCollocations
3 patterns- a bad omen
- bad omen
- good omen