omen

1. 1.

   indicate, as with a sign or an omen

   “These signs bode bad news”

   Synonymsbodeportendauspicateprognosticatepresagebetokenforeshadowaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredict

   Broaderbespeak

   Narrowerthreatenforeshow

Other forms of omen

plural

omens·

past tense

omenned·

present participle

omenning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about omen

What does omen mean?

omen means "a sign of something about to happen". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in omen?

omen has 2 syllables: o-men. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊmən/.

What is another word for omen?

Close synonyms include portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is omen a common word?

omen is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.