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Definition: Auspice |
AuspiceNoun1. A favorable omen. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "auspice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Etymology: Auspice \Aus"pice\, noun; plural Auspices. [Latin expression auspicium, from auspex: compare to the French expression auspice. See Auspicate,]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Omen | Noun: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign; (indication); harbinger; (precursor); yule candle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Auspice |
| Etymologies containing "auspice": Auspicious. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Auspice" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (omen). |
Expressions using "auspice": under smb.'s auspice ♦ under the auspice of. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
auspice | 10 |
auspice services | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "auspice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shenjë (accent, aim, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal), profeci (augury, prediction, prevision, prophecy, vaticination, weird). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تكهن (augur, divine, forecast, foretell, omen, predict, prediction, prognostic, prognosticate, prognostication, surmise, tip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гадание, знамение (foretoken, knell, omen, portent, presage, prognostic, sacrament, sign), предсказване (divination, foresight, prediction, prognostic, prognostication), предричане (prediction, prognostication), предзнаменование (adumbration, portent, prognostic, prognostication), поличба (augury, foreboding, omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, sign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卜. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dobré znamení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schutzherrschaft. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οιωνόσ (augury, omen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | madárjóslás (augury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tanda (alert, apostrophe, hallmark, indication, mark, seal, sign, signal, tally, token), gejala (phenomenon, symptom, tendency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | auspicio (omen), previsione (anticipation, calculation, expectation, forecast, foreknowledge, foresight, foresightedness, prevision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auspiceay auspício (auspices, patronage, support), profecia (forecast, foretoken, indication, message, omen, oracle, portent, precognition, prediction, presage, prophecy). (various references) auspicii (patronage), semn (badge, Beck, brand, character, denotation, dint, emblem, evidence, Favor, favour, gesture, impress, index, indication, mark, note, office, portent, print, property, scar, score, scratch, seal, sign, signal, splash, spot, symbol, symptom, token, trace, track, vestige, wave), prevestire (augury, foreboding, omen, portent, prediction, presentiment, prognostication, sooth), patronaj (patronage, protection, sponsorship). (various references) покровительство (auspices, favour, patronage, protectorship). (various references) predznak (foretoken, harbinger, omen, petrel, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, sign), predviđanje (anticipation, divination, foreknowledge, foresight, prevision). (various references) auspicio. (various references) gott omen, förebud (foreboding, harbinger, Herald, knell, omen, portent, presage, prognostication). (various references) ฤกษ์"ี. (various references) kuş falı. (various references) передбачення (forecast, foreknowledge, foresight, precognition, prediction, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication), добра ознака (handsel). (various references) sự bảo trợ điềm hay, sự bảo hộ (aegis, protection, protectiveness), điềm l nh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "auspice": auspices. (additional references) | |
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"Auspice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspice, Auspace, auspicy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "auspice" (pronounced 'Aus"pice'): Aruspice, hospice, Untappice. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: apices, spicae. | |
-2 letters: aspic, capes, cause, epics, paces, paise, pause, picas, puces, saice, sauce, scape, scaup, sepia, sepic, space, spica, spice. | |
-3 letters: aces, apes, apse, asci, cape, caps, case, ceps, cues, cups, cusp, ecus, epic, ices, pace, pacs, pase, peas, pecs, pias, pica, pice, pics, pies, puce, scup, sice, sipe, spae, spec, spic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: auspices, spiculae. | |
+2 letters: aruspices, capsulize, cuspidate, paucities, peculiars, picayunes, piquances, puissance, spacesuit. | |
+3 letters: capsulized, capsulizes, duplicates, epicureans, haruspices, inculpates, pasticheur, paunchiest, picaresque, piquancies, precarious, predacious, puissances, quadriceps, spacesuits, suppliance, supplicate. | |
+4 letters: apicultures, capitulates, copulatives, encapsuling, impuissance, intercampus, occupancies, parameciums, pasticheurs, patchoulies, paunchiness, peculations, pediculates, petulancies, picaresques, precautions, pugnacities, republicans, specularity, speculating, speculation, speculative, superficial, suppliances, supplicated, supplicates, supremacies, supremacist, uppercasing. | |
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