Meaning & use
omen
A sign or event believed to indicate that something, often something significant, will happen in the future.
See it in a sentence
The crows gathering on the roof struck her as a bad omen before the exam.
Sailors once treated a red sky at dawn as an omen of coming storms.
A note on using this word
Omen usually implies a symbolic or superstitious reading of an event, unlike a neutral 'sign' or 'indication.'
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