Omen Meaning
/ˈəʊ̯mən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounSomething 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.
nounA thing of prophetic significance.
Sentence Examples
You're my good omen.
It was the midnight of Friday, 13th; nothing of ill omen was apparent.
The raven is regarded a bird of bad omen.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The dark clouds were a bad ____ of the coming storm.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The sudden appearance of a black crow was considered a bad ____ by the superstitious villagers.
Word Origin & History
From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1856, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 10, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary, Part 3:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The dark clouds were a bad ____ of the coming storm.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The sudden appearance of a black crow was considered a bad ____ by the superstitious villagers.