Definitions of OMEN [ˈoʊ mən]

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Definition of 'OMEN'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) omen
any event believed to portend something good or evil; augury; portent.

2. omen
prophetic significance; presage.

3. (v.t.) omen
to be an omen of; portend.

4. omen
to divine, as if from omens.

Etymology: (1575–85; < L)

Definition of 'OMEN'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy
a sign of something about to happen
"he looked for an omen before going into battle"

2. (verb) bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
indicate by signs
"These signs bode bad news"

Translation of 'OMEN'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a sign of a future event Long ago, storms were regarded as bad omens.
Afrikaans: voorbode	Arabic: بَشير، نَذير، دلالَةٌ عَل	Bulgarian: поличба
Brazilian: agouro	Czech: znamení	German: das Omen
Danish: varsel; tegn	Greek: οιωνός	Spanish: augurio, presagio
Estonian: enne	Farsi: طالع؛ یمن	Finnish: enne
French: augure	Hebrew: סִימָן	Hindi: शगुन चिह्न
Croatian: predznak	Hungarian: ómen	Indonesian: pertanda
Icelandic: fyrirboði	Italian: auspicio, presagio	Japanese: 前兆
Korean: 전조, 징조	Lithuanian: pranašiškas ženklas	Latvian: zīme; pazīme; likteņzīme
Malay: petanda	Dutch: voorteken	Norwegian: tegn, varsel
Polish: omen, znak	Persian: طالع؛ یمن	Pashto: طالع
Portuguese: presságio	Romanian: prevestire	Russian: предзнаменование
Slovak: znamenie	Slovenian: znamenje	Serbian: predznak
Swedish: omen, järtecken, förebud	Thai: ลางบอกเหตุ	Turkish: işaret
Taiwanese: 預兆	Ukrainian: ознака, прикмета	Urdu: شگون، فال
Vietnamese: điềm	Chinese: 预兆
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