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(pɔːʳtent)
Word forms: plural portents
countable noun
A portent is something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future.
[formal]
The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of theregion. [+ of]
I hope this is a portent for the rest of the year.
As for her engagement with Adam, I would say the portents are gloomy.
Synonyms: omen, sign, warning, threat More Synonyms of portent

portent in British English

(ˈpɔːtɛnt)
noun
1. 
a sign or indication of a future event, esp a momentous or calamitous one; omen
2. 
momentous or ominous significance
a cry of dire portent
3. 
a miraculous occurrence; marvel
Word origin
C16: from Latin portentum sign, omen, from portendere to portend

portent in American English

(ˈpɔrˌtɛnt)
noun
1. 
something that portends an event about to occur, esp. an unfortunate event; omen
2. 
a portending; significance
a howl of dire portent
3. 
something amazing; marvel
Word origin
L portentum < portendere: see portend

Examples of 'portent' in a sentence
portent

They point to currency fluctuations as a portent of things to come and dismiss the relatively stable economic data elsewhere.
The Sun (2016)
And, of course, a portent of doom.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The portents are not good for one of his fractious demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This was a portent of things to come.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
An ominous portent or proof that combined entities can amount to more than the sum of their parts?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Whether it is the right one only time will tell but the portents are good and it is refreshing.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The rise in demand for college places and the difficulty of funding the supply is a portent of things to come.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Yet the other portents are good.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The initial portents were not good.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The sporting air is full of strange portents, disturbing signs of deeply unsettling matters.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
If they can somehow buy themselves some time, the portents for the future are more positive.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The first seemed a portent of nature, the second a portent of doom.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It's an ominous portent of the future of cattle class.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
 Signs and portents bring us messages, and we should heed them ere civilisation crumbles.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The setting is grim, the portents far from good.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
As the warriors passed along the mountain trails, they watched for portents of future victory or defeat.
Arthur Herman THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002)
While no one cared about that last night, such form is an ominous portent for next season.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The portents had been ominous.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Here was an ominous portent.
Max Hastings Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445 (2007)
A portent of things to come.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I was fed up with all those portents of doom and reckon the series could benefit from a brutal change of direction.
The Sun (2014)
It's a cultural curiosity now, but perhaps a portent of the future.
Christianity Today (2000)
But'there is no American identity without a sense of portent and doom.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And you see in these cultural portents what the future will bring: it is a new America.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I followed a series of signs and portents that led beyond thought, to find myself in a realm that was vast and ancient.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
(noun) 
Definition
a sign of a future event
This is a frightening portent for the future.
Synonyms
omen
Her appearance at this moment is an omen of disaster.
sign
It is a sign of things to come.
warning
a warning of impending doom
threat
The people who lived there felt a permanent sense of threat.
indication
He gave no indication that he was ready to compromise.
premonition
the first premonition of winter
foreshadowing
foreboding
No one paid any attention to their gloomy forebodings.
harbinger (literary)
a harbinger of winter
presage
Soldiers used to believe a raven was a presage of coming battle.
forewarning
prognostication
augury
The auguries of death are gathering around him.
presentiment
He had a presentiment of disaster.
prognostic
Seeomen

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portent

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Synonyms of 'portent'

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of indication
He gave no indication that he was ready to compromise.
Synonyms
sign,
mark,
evidence,
warning,
note,
signal,
suggestion,
symptom,
hint,
clue,
manifestation,
omen,
inkling,
portent,
intimation,
forewarning,
wake-up call
in the sense of premonition
Definition
a feeling that something unpleasant is going to happen
the first premonition of winter
Synonyms
omen,
sign,
warning,
portent,
presage,
forewarning,
wake-up call
in the sense of presage
Definition
an omen
Soldiers used to believe a raven was a presage of coming battle.
Synonyms
omen,
sign,
warning,
forecast,
prediction,
prophecy,
portent,
harbinger (literary),
intimation,
forewarning,
prognostication,
augury,
prognostic,
auspice
in the sense of presentiment
Definition
a sense that something unpleasant is about to happen
He had a presentiment of disaster.
Synonyms
premonition,
feeling,
expectation,
anticipation,
fear,
forecast,
hunch,
intuition,
apprehension,
misgiving,
foreboding,
presage,
forethought
in the sense of prognostic
Synonyms
sign,
warning,
forecast,
symptom,
indication,
omen,
portent,
preindication
in the sense of sign
Definition
an omen
It is a sign of things to come.
Synonyms
omen,
warning,
portent,
foreboding,
presage,
forewarning,
writing on the wall,
augury,
auspice,
wake-up call
in the sense of threat
The people who lived there felt a permanent sense of threat.
Synonyms
warning,
foreshadowing,
foreboding
in the sense of warning
Definition
a hint, threat, or advance notice of a possible danger or problem
a warning of impending doom
Synonyms
omen,
sign,
forecast,
indication,
token,
prediction,
prophecy,
premonition,
foreboding,
portent,
presage,
augury,
foretoken,
rahui (New Zealand)
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