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omen

o·men
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [oh-muh n]
    • /ˈoʊ mən/
    • /ˈəʊ.mən/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [oh-muh n]
    • /ˈoʊ mən/

Definitions of omen word

  • noun omen anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent. 1
  • noun omen a prognostic. 1
  • noun omen prophetic significance; presage: a bird of ill omen. 1
  • verb with object omen to be an omen of; portend. 1
  • verb with object omen to divine, as if from omens. 1
  • noun omen An event regarded as a portent of good or evil. 1

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Origin of omen

First appearance:

before 1575
One of the 34% oldest English words
First recorded in 1575-85, omen is from the Latin word ōmen

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Parts of speech for Omen

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

omen popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

omen usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for omen

noun omen

  • sign — a token; indication.
  • portent — an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
  • warning — the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
  • forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • premonition — a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.

verb omen

  • telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
  • predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
  • preindicate — to indicate in advance; presage: The early thaw preindicated an avalanche.
  • foretokening — Indication in advance.
  • forespeak — to predict; foretell.

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