Meaning of omen in English
(Definition of omen from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
omen | Intermediate English
Scoring that goal was an omen of things to come.
Examples of omen
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If it works, it'll be an omen for great things to come this year.
From Gizmodo
What an amazing affirmation, a positive omen for the new year, a heads up from the universe, telling me to keep putting myself out there.
From Huffington Post
There's also a lot of decoration that has to do with luck on the road and warning away bad omens.
From CNN
I take this as an omen, a promise, an inadvertent caress.
From Los Angeles Times
To be fair, an omen isn't necessarily a portent of negative things.
From TechCrunch
This belief is based on that all that is use with the left side is bad omen.
From Huffington Post
And because they disturbed the harmony of the starry sky, they were soon deemed to be a bad omen.
From Phys.Org
Let us not allow omens of destruction and death to accompany the advance of this world!
From The Atlantic
There is harmless healing, when healers-cheaters and wizards offer omens, lapels, damage to withdraw, the husband-wife back and stuff.
From Huffington Post
Most people considered these names just vestiges of the lake's glacial origins -- artifacts, not omens.
From The Atlantic
Perhaps it was an omen, considering later that day she was rushed to the hospital after she cut her finger while cooking.
From Huffington Post
But the photos also serve as a dark omen, of a prison-industrial complex that would only grow more hungry, more unjust, more powerful.
From Huffington Post
Last year we had already picked up 9.3 "snow, an omen of the 86" to come.
We are trained, by centuries of storytelling tradition, to take that as an omen.
From The Verge
An inverted yield curve is a bad omen for the stock market.
From Dallas Morning News
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