omen

présage, augure

Chose que l’on croit annoncer un événement heureux ou malheureux.

En anglais simple : Something people believe shows that a good or bad event will happen.

• She thought it was a good omen.
• The broken mirror seemed like a bad omen.
• They took the bird's arrival as an omen of peace.

Comment l'utiliser : an omen of something (They saw the dark clouds as an omen of disaster.)

Synonymes : sign, portent, augury

Expressions courantes : good omen, bad omen, omen of something, ill omen

présager, annoncer

Être un signe que quelque chose va se produire.

En anglais simple : To be a sign that something will happen in the future.

• The dark sky omened disaster.
• They believed the eagle's arrival omened victory.
• The strange silence seemed to omen approaching death.

Synonymes : foretell, portend, foreshadow

Expressions courantes : omen disaster, omen a victory