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portent
- IPA[ˈpôrˌtent]
美式
- n.
  
  a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen；future significance
- noun: portent, plural noun: portents
- 釋義
n.
名詞
1. a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death JFK's political debut was a portent of the fame to come 同義詞 omen, sign, indication, presage, warning, ... 更多forewarning, harbinger, augury, signal, promise, threat, menace, ill omen, forecast, prediction, prognostication, prophecy, straw in the wind, writing on the wall, hint, auspice, premonition, presentiment, feeling, vague feeling, funny feeling, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, misgiving, literaryforetoken
▪ future significance an omen of grave portent for the tribe 同義詞 significance, importance, import, consequence, meaning, ... 更多meaningfulness, moment, momentousness, weight, weightiness, cruciality
2. literary an exceptional or wonderful person or thing what portent can be greater than a pious notary?
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portent
IPA[ˈpɔːtɛnt]
英式
n.
a sign or warning that a momentous or calamitous event is likely to happen: many birds are regarded as being portents of death
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