'Portent' definitions:
Definition of 'portent'
(from WordNet)
noun
A sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy]
Definition of 'Portent'
From: GCIDE
- Portent \Por*tent"\ (?; 277), n. [L. portentum. See Portend.] That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- My loss by dire portents the god foretold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'portent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adumbration,
- advance notice,
- augury,
- auspice,
- balefulness,
- banefulness,
- betokening,
- betokenment,
- bodefulness,
- boding,
- direness,
- doomfulness,
- fatality,
- fatefulness,
- foreboding,
- foreshadow,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretoken,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- indicant,
- indication,
- marvel,
- meaning,
- miracle,
- omen,
- ominousness,
- phenomenon,
- plenty of notice,
- portentousness,
- precautioning,
- prefiguration,
- preindication,
- premonition,
- premonitory shiver,
- premonitory sign,
- premonitory symptom,
- prenotice,
- prenotification,
- presage,
- presagefulness,
- presentiment,
- presignifying,
- prewarning,
- prodigy,
- prognostic,
- prognostication,
- promise,
- sensation,
- shadow,
- sign,
- significance,
- sinisterness,
- soothsay,
- stunner,
- suggestiveness,
- token,
- tokening,
- type