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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun portent has 1 sense
- portent(n = noun.event) omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" is a kind of augury, foretoken, preindication, sign
has particulars: auspice, foreboding, death knell
Derived forms verb portend1, adjective portentous2, adjective portentous1
CIDE DICTIONARY
portent, 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. [1913 Webster]
"My loss by dire portents the god foretold."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
portent, n.
1 an omen, a significant sign of something to come.
2 a prodigy; a marvellous thing.
1 an omen, a significant sign of something to come.
2 a prodigy; a marvellous thing.
Etymology
L portentum (as PORTEND)
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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, typeROGET THESAURUS
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Prodigy
N prodigy, phenomenon, wonder, wonderment, marvel, miracle, monster, curiosity, lion, sight, spectacle, jeu de theatre, coup de theatre, gazingstock, sign, St. Elmo's fire, St. Elmo's light, portent, bursting of a shell, bursting of a bomb, volcanic eruption, peal of thunder, thunder-clap, thunder-bolt, what no words can paint, wonders of the world, annus mirabilis, dignus vindice nodus, natura il fece e poi roppe la stampa.Omen
N omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice, sign, harbinger, yule candle, bird of ill omen, signs of the times, gathering clouds, warning, prefigurement, ill-boding, auspicium melioris aevi.
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