All 3 Uses of
omen
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Wasn't it a bad omen to have a gravestone factory marking the entrance to a city?†
p. 68.9omen = sign of something about to happen
- Because, really, what could ill omens matter now?†
p. 69.5omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- It seemed like an omen suddenly, and she let herself turn the fear she'd felt at Phoebe's disappearance into anger.†
p. 236.9 *omen = sign of something about to happen
Definition:
a sign of something about to happen