omen

About 1.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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.

   The ghost's appearance was an ill omen.

2. noun A thing of prophetic significance.

   A sign of ill omen.

3. verb To be an omen of.
4. verb To divine or predict from omens.

Similar words

presage portent portend bode foretell prognostic prognosticate foreshadow forecast prefigure

Often followed by

of for that to and in is was from

Word family

omens