Usually means: Sign indicating future positive or negative.
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  1. omen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. omen: Merriam-Webster
  3. omen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. omen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. omen: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Omen, omen: Wordnik
  8. omen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. omen: Wiktionary
  10. omen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. omen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. omen: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Omen, omen: Dictionary.com
  14. omen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. omen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Omen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. omen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. omen: Rhymezone
  20. Omen (nt), omen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. omen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. omen: FreeDictionary.org
  23. omen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. omen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. omen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Omen: Encyclopedia

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  1. Omen, The Omen: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
▸ noun:  A thing of prophetic significance.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To be an omen of.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To divine or predict from omens.

Similar:
bode, portend, portent, presage, forecast, foretell, predict, auspicate, prognostic, foreshadow, more...

Opposite:
portent, omeness

Types:
bird, cat, dog, rabbit, snake, deer, rat, sheep, monkey, more...

Phrases:
absit omen, bird of ill omen, The Omen, Blood Omen 2, The Pious Bird of Good Omen, more...

Adjectives:
good, bad, ill, evil, happy, favourable, favorable, auspicious, lucky, sinister, unlucky

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Similar:
bode, portend, portent, presage, forecast, foretell, predict, auspicate, prognostic, foreshadow, more...

Opposite:
portent, omeness

Types:
bird, cat, dog, rabbit, snake, deer, rat, sheep, monkey, more...

Phrases:
absit omen, bird of ill omen, The Omen, Blood Omen 2, The Pious Bird of Good Omen, The Boxer's Omen, bad omen, good omen, be an omen of, opposite of omen, favourable omen, scary omen, omen of death, more...

Adjectives:
good, bad, ill, evil, happy, favourable, favorable, auspicious, lucky, sinister, unlucky

Colors:
    black,     gray,     crimson,     midnight blue,     blood red, more...



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