1. noun
a) Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
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.
b) prophetic significance
a sign of ill omen
See Also: ominous
2. verb
a) To be an omen of.
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