Definition of portent in English:

portent

noun ˈpɔːtɛntˈpɔːt(ə)ntˈpɔrˌtɛnt

1A sign or warning that a momentous or calamitous event is likely to happen.
（重大或灾难事件可能发生的）迹象，征兆
many birds are regarded as being portents of death
许多鸟被认为是死亡的征兆。
Example sentencesExamples
- We're not there yet but the signs and portents are mounting up.
- The major labor market problems faced by out-of-school youth during the 1990s carry portents for likely developments as their numbers increase in the years ahead.
- There is a scent of change in the air, as a devastated people eagerly interpret the smallest of signs as portents of a new beginning.
- The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, with hundreds killed, is likely a portent of worse to come in a warming world.
- Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job.
- In general I do not think of myself as a particularly superstitious person, but then things like this happen and I realize I am constantly on the look out for signs and portents in the world around me.
- The signs and portents are not very positive, however.
- These were signs and portents, she realized, visitations and apparitions from a tangled mess of folklore, some unrecognizable and others merely silly.
- The confluence of events was an ominous portent for Newman.
- Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand.
- For someone who was chosen shortly after birth by means of a variety of signs and portents few of us would set any store by in ordinary circumstances, he's an extraordinarily wise human being and a powerful force for good.
- Interpreting deformities as portents or signs of divine displeasure continued well into the sixteenth century.
- Alec, despite his grounding in the rational science of making lots of money, is swayed by symbols and portents, seemingly mundane signs that he interprets superstitiously to be indicators of the path he is meant to pursue.
- The artist began to feel a general unease as things that happened and things he saw seemed to be signs and portents of some great event.
- Don't you think that this event is a portent of things to come soon too?
- I thought of how, in Tibetan Buddhism, tigers are symbols of strength and compassion, sometimes also portents of death.
- But signs and portents certainly suggest this power surge could help manifest something you've always wanted.
- We've been reading the tea leaves and rolling the bones, and the signs and portents tell us, something totally wicked this way comes.
- Biblical preaching calls us to pay attention to the portents of death masquerading as success and the tokens of resurrection hope in the midst of despair.
- Particularly for growth companies, the signs and portents were mixed even prior to the attacks on September 11, and since then they've grown only murkier.
Synonyms
omen, sign, indication, presage, warning, 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
literary foretoken
1. 1.1mass noun Future significance.
  未来意义
  an omen of grave portent for the tribe
  对该部落有重大未来意义的征兆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  On the eve of my first day of paid post-university employment she rang me up and in a voice dripping with portent, said: ‘Listen, I want to tell you something.’
  Beginnings and endings, the dual portals of narrative, are often charged with portent and revelation.
  The tender attention paid by the wife to her husband's body, the detailed steps of her betrayal, and the subtle note of portent, all serve to heighten the drama.
  It's birthday week so everything seems meaningful and full of portent.
  Now an even greater silence filled the air, filled with portent and emotion.
  I arrived home with renewed determination, I was going to study and make the heavy feeling of dread and portent disappear.
  This paragraph is laden with portent and grim irony.
  A late-night ambiance of portent and dread permeates the music, deepened by the combustible dimension of the band's playing, a tense containment that threatens to explode at any moment.
  A far more chilling episode, little remarked and with even graver portent for the future of the democratic process, occurred on November 12.
  I cannot express strongly enough how horrified I am at what has happened and its evil and terrifying portent for the future.
  His opening cadenza is filled with tension and dark portent, and his tempos, as usual, are well judged.
  To my mind, the sight of a bored animal locked in a cage holds way too much portent with respect to most relationships to be an image one would want to introduce so early in the dating game.
  If you believe that fundamentals eventually catch up to market behavior, this is not a particularly good portent for stocks going forward.
  But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia.
  When the building is evacuated, she stays behind unnoticed and overhears a conversation of sinister portent in her native Ku tongue on the microphone system.
  That's how the album was received on its release in November 1975: as beacon, portent, and catalyst.
  For 24 years these words carried with them a chilling, murderous portent.
  It's a clumsy, unnecessary portent of doom, both for Gilda's life and for the next two hours of watching a clumsy and unnecessary movie.
  I sit on a bentwood chair in a patch of sunlight as if I'm in a single spot, centre of a dim-lit stage, shadow-filled with movement and with portent.
  Not your typical hardcore-punk funfest, this one comes heavily laden with socio-political portent.
  Synonyms
  significance, importance, import, consequence, meaning, meaningfulness, moment, momentousness, weight, weightiness, cruciality
2literary An exceptional or wonderful person or thing.
〈古〉奇才；奇事，奇观
what portent can be greater than a pious notary?
有什么奇才能够比一个虔诚的公证人更伟大的呢？

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin portentum 'omen, token', from the verb portendere (see portend).

Definition of portent in US English:

portent

nounˈpôrˌtentˈpɔrˌtɛnt

1A sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
（重大或灾难事件可能发生的）迹象，征兆
they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death
JFK's political debut was a portent of the fame to come
Example sentencesExamples
- The signs and portents are not very positive, however.
- The artist began to feel a general unease as things that happened and things he saw seemed to be signs and portents of some great event.
- Interpreting deformities as portents or signs of divine displeasure continued well into the sixteenth century.
- Alec, despite his grounding in the rational science of making lots of money, is swayed by symbols and portents, seemingly mundane signs that he interprets superstitiously to be indicators of the path he is meant to pursue.
- The major labor market problems faced by out-of-school youth during the 1990s carry portents for likely developments as their numbers increase in the years ahead.
- There is a scent of change in the air, as a devastated people eagerly interpret the smallest of signs as portents of a new beginning.
- Don't you think that this event is a portent of things to come soon too?
- Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand.
- We're not there yet but the signs and portents are mounting up.
- The confluence of events was an ominous portent for Newman.
- For someone who was chosen shortly after birth by means of a variety of signs and portents few of us would set any store by in ordinary circumstances, he's an extraordinarily wise human being and a powerful force for good.
- I thought of how, in Tibetan Buddhism, tigers are symbols of strength and compassion, sometimes also portents of death.
- In general I do not think of myself as a particularly superstitious person, but then things like this happen and I realize I am constantly on the look out for signs and portents in the world around me.
- Biblical preaching calls us to pay attention to the portents of death masquerading as success and the tokens of resurrection hope in the midst of despair.
- The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, with hundreds killed, is likely a portent of worse to come in a warming world.
- These were signs and portents, she realized, visitations and apparitions from a tangled mess of folklore, some unrecognizable and others merely silly.
- But signs and portents certainly suggest this power surge could help manifest something you've always wanted.
- Particularly for growth companies, the signs and portents were mixed even prior to the attacks on September 11, and since then they've grown only murkier.
- We've been reading the tea leaves and rolling the bones, and the signs and portents tell us, something totally wicked this way comes.
- Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job.
Synonyms
omen, sign, indication, presage, warning, forewarning, harbinger, augury, signal, promise, threat, menace, ill omen, forecast, prediction, prognostication, prophecy, straw in the wind, writing on the wall, hint, auspice
1. 1.1 Future significance.
  未来意义
  an omen of grave portent for the tribe
  对该部落有重大未来意义的征兆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia.
  I cannot express strongly enough how horrified I am at what has happened and its evil and terrifying portent for the future.
  A late-night ambiance of portent and dread permeates the music, deepened by the combustible dimension of the band's playing, a tense containment that threatens to explode at any moment.
  Not your typical hardcore-punk funfest, this one comes heavily laden with socio-political portent.
  To my mind, the sight of a bored animal locked in a cage holds way too much portent with respect to most relationships to be an image one would want to introduce so early in the dating game.
  It's birthday week so everything seems meaningful and full of portent.
  The tender attention paid by the wife to her husband's body, the detailed steps of her betrayal, and the subtle note of portent, all serve to heighten the drama.
  For 24 years these words carried with them a chilling, murderous portent.
  I arrived home with renewed determination, I was going to study and make the heavy feeling of dread and portent disappear.
  His opening cadenza is filled with tension and dark portent, and his tempos, as usual, are well judged.
  It's a clumsy, unnecessary portent of doom, both for Gilda's life and for the next two hours of watching a clumsy and unnecessary movie.
  On the eve of my first day of paid post-university employment she rang me up and in a voice dripping with portent, said: ‘Listen, I want to tell you something.’
  Beginnings and endings, the dual portals of narrative, are often charged with portent and revelation.
  I sit on a bentwood chair in a patch of sunlight as if I'm in a single spot, centre of a dim-lit stage, shadow-filled with movement and with portent.
  That's how the album was received on its release in November 1975: as beacon, portent, and catalyst.
  This paragraph is laden with portent and grim irony.
  A far more chilling episode, little remarked and with even graver portent for the future of the democratic process, occurred on November 12.
  When the building is evacuated, she stays behind unnoticed and overhears a conversation of sinister portent in her native Ku tongue on the microphone system.
  Now an even greater silence filled the air, filled with portent and emotion.
  If you believe that fundamentals eventually catch up to market behavior, this is not a particularly good portent for stocks going forward.
  Synonyms
  significance, importance, import, consequence, meaning, meaningfulness, moment, momentousness, weight, weightiness, cruciality
2literary An exceptional or wonderful person or thing.
〈古〉奇才；奇事，奇观
what portent can be greater than a pious notary?
有什么奇才能够比一个虔诚的公证人更伟大的呢？

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin portentum ‘omen, token’, from the verb portendere (see portend).

词汇	portent
释义	Definition of portent in English: portent noun ˈpɔːtɛntˈpɔːt(ə)ntˈpɔrˌtɛnt 1A sign or warning that a momentous or calamitous event is likely to happen. （重大或灾难事件可能发生的）迹象，征兆 many birds are regarded as being portents of death 许多鸟被认为是死亡的征兆。 Example sentencesExamples We're not there yet but the signs and portents are mounting up. The major labor market problems faced by out-of-school youth during the 1990s carry portents for likely developments as their numbers increase in the years ahead. There is a scent of change in the air, as a devastated people eagerly interpret the smallest of signs as portents of a new beginning. The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, with hundreds killed, is likely a portent of worse to come in a warming world. Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job. In general I do not think of myself as a particularly superstitious person, but then things like this happen and I realize I am constantly on the look out for signs and portents in the world around me. The signs and portents are not very positive, however. These were signs and portents, she realized, visitations and apparitions from a tangled mess of folklore, some unrecognizable and others merely silly. The confluence of events was an ominous portent for Newman. Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand. For someone who was chosen shortly after birth by means of a variety of signs and portents few of us would set any store by in ordinary circumstances, he's an extraordinarily wise human being and a powerful force for good. Interpreting deformities as portents or signs of divine displeasure continued well into the sixteenth century. Alec, despite his grounding in the rational science of making lots of money, is swayed by symbols and portents, seemingly mundane signs that he interprets superstitiously to be indicators of the path he is meant to pursue. The artist began to feel a general unease as things that happened and things he saw seemed to be signs and portents of some great event. Don't you think that this event is a portent of things to come soon too? I thought of how, in Tibetan Buddhism, tigers are symbols of strength and compassion, sometimes also portents of death. But signs and portents certainly suggest this power surge could help manifest something you've always wanted. We've been reading the tea leaves and rolling the bones, and the signs and portents tell us, something totally wicked this way comes. Biblical preaching calls us to pay attention to the portents of death masquerading as success and the tokens of resurrection hope in the midst of despair. Particularly for growth companies, the signs and portents were mixed even prior to the attacks on September 11, and since then they've grown only murkier. Synonyms omen, sign, indication, presage, warning, 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 literary foretoken 1.1mass noun Future significance. 未来意义 an omen of grave portent for the tribe 对该部落有重大未来意义的征兆。 Example sentencesExamples On the eve of my first day of paid post-university employment she rang me up and in a voice dripping with portent, said: ‘Listen, I want to tell you something.’ Beginnings and endings, the dual portals of narrative, are often charged with portent and revelation. The tender attention paid by the wife to her husband's body, the detailed steps of her betrayal, and the subtle note of portent, all serve to heighten the drama. It's birthday week so everything seems meaningful and full of portent. Now an even greater silence filled the air, filled with portent and emotion. I arrived home with renewed determination, I was going to study and make the heavy feeling of dread and portent disappear. This paragraph is laden with portent and grim irony. A late-night ambiance of portent and dread permeates the music, deepened by the combustible dimension of the band's playing, a tense containment that threatens to explode at any moment. A far more chilling episode, little remarked and with even graver portent for the future of the democratic process, occurred on November 12. I cannot express strongly enough how horrified I am at what has happened and its evil and terrifying portent for the future. His opening cadenza is filled with tension and dark portent, and his tempos, as usual, are well judged. To my mind, the sight of a bored animal locked in a cage holds way too much portent with respect to most relationships to be an image one would want to introduce so early in the dating game. If you believe that fundamentals eventually catch up to market behavior, this is not a particularly good portent for stocks going forward. But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia. When the building is evacuated, she stays behind unnoticed and overhears a conversation of sinister portent in her native Ku tongue on the microphone system. That's how the album was received on its release in November 1975: as beacon, portent, and catalyst. For 24 years these words carried with them a chilling, murderous portent. It's a clumsy, unnecessary portent of doom, both for Gilda's life and for the next two hours of watching a clumsy and unnecessary movie. I sit on a bentwood chair in a patch of sunlight as if I'm in a single spot, centre of a dim-lit stage, shadow-filled with movement and with portent. Not your typical hardcore-punk funfest, this one comes heavily laden with socio-political portent. Synonyms significance, importance, import, consequence, meaning, meaningfulness, moment, momentousness, weight, weightiness, cruciality 2literary An exceptional or wonderful person or thing. 〈古〉奇才；奇事，奇观 what portent can be greater than a pious notary? 有什么奇才能够比一个虔诚的公证人更伟大的呢？ Origin Late 16th century: from Latin portentum 'omen, token', from the verb portendere (see portend). Definition of portent in US English: portent nounˈpôrˌtentˈpɔrˌtɛnt 1A sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen. （重大或灾难事件可能发生的）迹象，征兆 they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death JFK's political debut was a portent of the fame to come Example sentencesExamples The signs and portents are not very positive, however. The artist began to feel a general unease as things that happened and things he saw seemed to be signs and portents of some great event. Interpreting deformities as portents or signs of divine displeasure continued well into the sixteenth century. Alec, despite his grounding in the rational science of making lots of money, is swayed by symbols and portents, seemingly mundane signs that he interprets superstitiously to be indicators of the path he is meant to pursue. The major labor market problems faced by out-of-school youth during the 1990s carry portents for likely developments as their numbers increase in the years ahead. There is a scent of change in the air, as a devastated people eagerly interpret the smallest of signs as portents of a new beginning. Don't you think that this event is a portent of things to come soon too? Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand. We're not there yet but the signs and portents are mounting up. The confluence of events was an ominous portent for Newman. For someone who was chosen shortly after birth by means of a variety of signs and portents few of us would set any store by in ordinary circumstances, he's an extraordinarily wise human being and a powerful force for good. I thought of how, in Tibetan Buddhism, tigers are symbols of strength and compassion, sometimes also portents of death. In general I do not think of myself as a particularly superstitious person, but then things like this happen and I realize I am constantly on the look out for signs and portents in the world around me. Biblical preaching calls us to pay attention to the portents of death masquerading as success and the tokens of resurrection hope in the midst of despair. The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, with hundreds killed, is likely a portent of worse to come in a warming world. These were signs and portents, she realized, visitations and apparitions from a tangled mess of folklore, some unrecognizable and others merely silly. But signs and portents certainly suggest this power surge could help manifest something you've always wanted. Particularly for growth companies, the signs and portents were mixed even prior to the attacks on September 11, and since then they've grown only murkier. We've been reading the tea leaves and rolling the bones, and the signs and portents tell us, something totally wicked this way comes. Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job. Synonyms omen, sign, indication, presage, warning, forewarning, harbinger, augury, signal, promise, threat, menace, ill omen, forecast, prediction, prognostication, prophecy, straw in the wind, writing on the wall, hint, auspice 1.1 Future significance. 未来意义 an omen of grave portent for the tribe 对该部落有重大未来意义的征兆。 Example sentencesExamples But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia. I cannot express strongly enough how horrified I am at what has happened and its evil and terrifying portent for the future. A late-night ambiance of portent and dread permeates the music, deepened by the combustible dimension of the band's playing, a tense containment that threatens to explode at any moment. Not your typical hardcore-punk funfest, this one comes heavily laden with socio-political portent. To my mind, the sight of a bored animal locked in a cage holds way too much portent with respect to most relationships to be an image one would want to introduce so early in the dating game. It's birthday week so everything seems meaningful and full of portent. The tender attention paid by the wife to her husband's body, the detailed steps of her betrayal, and the subtle note of portent, all serve to heighten the drama. For 24 years these words carried with them a chilling, murderous portent. I arrived home with renewed determination, I was going to study and make the heavy feeling of dread and portent disappear. His opening cadenza is filled with tension and dark portent, and his tempos, as usual, are well judged. It's a clumsy, unnecessary portent of doom, both for Gilda's life and for the next two hours of watching a clumsy and unnecessary movie. On the eve of my first day of paid post-university employment she rang me up and in a voice dripping with portent, said: ‘Listen, I want to tell you something.’ Beginnings and endings, the dual portals of narrative, are often charged with portent and revelation. I sit on a bentwood chair in a patch of sunlight as if I'm in a single spot, centre of a dim-lit stage, shadow-filled with movement and with portent. That's how the album was received on its release in November 1975: as beacon, portent, and catalyst. This paragraph is laden with portent and grim irony. A far more chilling episode, little remarked and with even graver portent for the future of the democratic process, occurred on November 12. When the building is evacuated, she stays behind unnoticed and overhears a conversation of sinister portent in her native Ku tongue on the microphone system. Now an even greater silence filled the air, filled with portent and emotion. If you believe that fundamentals eventually catch up to market behavior, this is not a particularly good portent for stocks going forward. Synonyms significance, importance, import, consequence, meaning, meaningfulness, moment, momentousness, weight, weightiness, cruciality 2literary An exceptional or wonderful person or thing. 〈古〉奇才；奇事，奇观 what portent can be greater than a pious notary? 有什么奇才能够比一个虔诚的公证人更伟大的呢？ Origin Late 16th century: from Latin portentum ‘omen, token’, from the verb portendere (see portend).
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