Meaning & use
Portents
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Signs or warnings that something, typically something momentous or calamitous, is about to happen.
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The villagers read the strange lights in the sky as portents of disaster.
Ancient sailors watched for portents before setting out to sea.
A note on using this word
Plural of 'portent'; related to the verb 'portend', meaning to signal an event in advance.
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