portent
noun
Origin of portent
Synonyms for portent
Related Words for portent
premonition, harbinger, omen, hunch, prognostic, foreboding, augury, sign, warning, prognostication, threat, caution, clue, presage, presentiment, foretoken, foreshadowing, vibes, phenomenonExamples from the Web for portent
Contemporary Examples of portent
At times, it seemed Leonard was awaiting a portent or an omen.
Is this a passing phase or a portent of something more serious?
As the great commentator, the Ramban, teaches, “everything that happened to the Patriarchs is a portent for the children.”
Online activity is not therefore a portent of offline activity.
Lapid is the first politician to emerge from this politics and is in any case a portent of things to come.
Historical Examples of portent
It was the hush of portent, the hush of watchfulness, the hush of a threatening tension.
The Law-BreakersRidgwell Cullum
They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.
Lord JimJoseph Conrad
The silence without was only portent of the storm so soon to burst.
Warrior GapCharles King
It was because he was a failure in literature that he became a portent in English history.
The Napoleon of Notting HillGilbert K. Chesterton
And, try as I might, I felt it to be a portent and a prophecy.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London PrisonAustin Biron Bidwell