Foreshadow vs Omen - What's the difference?
foreshadow | omen |
To presage, or suggest something in advance.
* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
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.
As verbs the difference between foreshadow and omen
is that foreshadow is to presage, or suggest something in advance while omen is to be an omen of.As a noun omen is
something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.foreshadow
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Verb
(en verb)- It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.
omen
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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