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- PORTENT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PORTENT is something that foreshadows a coming event : omen, sign How to use portent in a sentence
- PORTENT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
The evening started with portents of impending doom To have an owl calling about your house was usually read as an ominous portent for those inside Strange events and portents abounded
- PORTENT Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
PORTENT definition: an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous See examples of portent used in a sentence
- portent noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of portent noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- portent, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
Indication or omen of something that is to happen; presage; prophecy Also: future events or occurrences; a person's fortune or luck Frequently… Premonition, presentiment; concrete prognostic, omen, portent An extraordinary natural occurrence, esp when regarded as supernatural or taken as an omen or portent Chiefly plural Obsolete
- PORTENT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Signs and portents bring us messages, and we should heed them ere civilisation crumbles It's a cultural curiosity now, but perhaps a portent of the future I followed a series of signs and portents that led beyond thought, to find myself in a realm that was vast and ancient
- Portent - definition of portent by The Free Dictionary
An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen 2 Prophetic or threatening significance: signs full of portent 3 Archaic Something amazing or marvelous; a prodigy [Latin portentum, from neuter past participle of portendere, to portend; see portend ]
- Portent - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
While you might love crows, your father will shudder when he sees them if he superstitiously believes they're a portent — a sign or warning — of death A portent is an omen of something momentous, which can be good, but is more often negative
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