Omen vs Designation - What's the difference?
omen | designation | Related terms |
Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
prophetic significance
To be an omen of.
To divine or predict from omens.
The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
Omen is a related term of designation.
As nouns the difference between omen and designation
is that omen is (adult male human) while designation is designation.omen
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia omen)- the ghost's appearance was an ill omen
- a rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
- the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen
- Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen . Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
- a sign of ill omen