Omen vs Indicating - What's the difference?
omen | indicating | 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.
Omen is a related term of indicating.
As a noun omen
is (adult male human).As a verb indicating is
.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