Definizione monolingua

omen

omen (third-person singular simple present omens, present participle omening, simple past and past participle omened)

1. To be an omen of.
2. To divine or predict from omens.

omen (plural omens)

1. Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.

2. prophetic significance

   a sign of ill omen

Definizione dizionario omen

	augurio
	A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.

	presagio
	A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.

auspicio

indizio

Altri significati:

something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding

prophetic significance

To divine or predict from omens.

To be an omen of.

Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.