Usually means: Omen or sign of future.
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  1. portent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. portent: Merriam-Webster
  3. portent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. portent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. portent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. portent: Vocabulary.com
  7. portent: Wordnik
  8. portent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. portent: Wiktionary
  10. portent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. portent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. portent: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Portent, portent: Dictionary.com
  14. portent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Portent (divination), Portent, The Portent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Portent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. portent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. portent: Rhymezone
  19. portent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. portent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. portent: FreeDictionary.org
  22. portent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. portent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Portent: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Portent (divination), portent: Legal dictionary

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  1. Portent (divination), portent: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portent: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portent: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
▸ noun:  A portending; significance
▸ noun:  Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy.

Similar:
omen, presage, prognostic, portender, presentiment, foretoken, forewarning, foreboding, portension, prefigure, more...

Opposite:
omen, augury, foreboding

Types:
omen, sign, forewarning, premonition, prophecy, auspice, harbinger, foreboding, more...

Phrases:
portent (divination), event regarded as a portent, opposite of portent, portent of bad luck, portent of, more...

Adjectives:
ominous, evil, great, dire, sinister, strange, serious, significant, bad, fearful, divine

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Similar:
omen, presage, prognostic, portender, presentiment, foretoken, forewarning, foreboding, portension, prefigure, more...

Opposite:
omen, augury, foreboding

Types:
omen, sign, forewarning, premonition, prophecy, auspice, harbinger, foreboding, more...

Phrases:
portent (divination), event regarded as a portent, opposite of portent, portent of bad luck, portent of, more...

Adjectives:
ominous, evil, great, dire, sinister, strange, serious, significant, bad, fearful, divine

Colors:
    black,     dark purple,     deep red,     midnight blue,     charcoal, more...



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