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Definition
a sign of something about to happen- He looked for an omen before going into battle.
omen = a sign of what would happen
- Right there and then I should have known the dream was an omen of death.Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
- that butterflies were a good omen.Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
- You'll start seeing death omens everywhere.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- A bad omen for a homecoming.Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
- She didn't know if that was an omen of sorts or even if she should attach any meaning to it.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
- Be it so if you will; but, alas! it was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown
- It seemed like a good omen.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- The sun was out now, and Hammond took it as an omen.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- Can you imagine a worse omen?Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- And so, if the heavens were doubtful, from early morning I would not cease to interrogate them, observing all the omens.Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way
- It was an ill-omened place.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Le6n lets us out of the car, a good omen.Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
- The omen from the Fates, when I saw them snip somebody's life string.Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
- But leaving Neville lying motionless on the floor didn't feel like a very good omen.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill-omened moor was weighing heavily upon his mind.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- You are strange visitors and I think perhaps an ill omen.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- The three outlaws stiffened in their seats, incredulous, yet irresistibly swayed by emotions that stirred to this dark, lonely, ill-omened hour.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- I felt sure the lion was a good omen.Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
- It might be deemed the omen of defeat.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
omen = sign of something about to happen
omen = sign of something about to happen
omens = signs of what will happen in the future