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–noun

1.	anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.

2.	a prognostic.

3.	prophetic significance; presage: a bird of ill omen.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to be an omen of; portend.

5.	to divine, as if from omens.

[Origin: 1575–85; < L ōmen

]

—Synonyms 1. augury, foreboding. See sign.

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n.

A phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign.
Prognostication; portent: birds of ill omen.

tr.v. o·mened, o·men·ing, o·mens
To be a prophetic sign of; portend.

[Latin ōmen.]

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1582, from L. omen "foreboding," from Old L. osmen, of unknown origin; perhaps connected with the root of audire "to hear."

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omen
noun
1.	a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
verb
1.	indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"

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omen [ˈəumən] noun

a sign of a future event
Example: Long ago, storms were regarded as bad omens.

Arabic:	بَشير، نَذير، دلالَةٌ عَلى المُسْتَقْبَل
Chinese (Simplified):	预兆
Chinese (Traditional):	預兆
Czech:	znamení
Danish:	varsel; tegn
Dutch:	voorteken
Estonian:	enne
Finnish:	enne
French:	augure
German:	das Omen
Greek:	οιωνός
Hungarian:	ómen
Icelandic:	fyrirboði
Indonesian:	pertanda
Italian:	auspicio, presagio

Japanese:	前兆
Korean:	징조
Latvian:	zīme; pazīme; likteņzīme
Lithuanian:	pranašiškas ženklas
Norwegian:	tegn, varsel
Polish:	omen, znak
Portuguese (Brazil):	presságio, agouro
Portuguese (Portugal):	presságio
Romanian:	prevestire
Russian:	предзнаменование
Slovak:	znamenie
Slovenian:	znamenje
Spanish:	augurio, presagio
Swedish:	omen, järtecken, förebud
Turkish:	işaret

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Omen

A*bom"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abominating.] [L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See Omen.] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

Syn: To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.

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Omen

O"men\, n. [L. omen, the original form being osmen, according to Varro.] An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.

Bid go with evil omen, and the brand Of infamy upon my name. --Milton.

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