MEANING
An event or sign understood as indicating what may happen, often something adverse.
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- bad omen
- favorable omen
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The dead bird was taken as a bad omen.
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- omen
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Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular omen; plural omens. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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