Definition of Portent

Portent

That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.

Portent Quotations

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes de Mille

Self-parody is the first portent of age.
Larry McMurtry

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
Peter Conrad

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Portent Translations

portent in Dutch is voorbode, voorteken
portent in German is Omen
portent in Latin is monstrum

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