Portent

Definition: Portent

Portent

Noun

1. A sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle".

Date "portent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Portent \Por*tent"\, noun. [Latin expression portentum. See Portend.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Portent

Synonyms: omen (n), presage (n), prognostic (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Omen	Noun: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign; (indication); harbinger; (precursor); yule candle.
Prodigy	Noun: prodigy, phenomenon; wonder, wonderment; marvel, miracle; monster; (unconformity); curiosity, lion, sight, spectacle; jeu de theatre, coup de theatre; gazingstock; sign; St. Elmo's fire, St. Elmo's light; portent.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Portent

English words defined with "portent": ace of spades ♦ Ostent ♦ Soothsay. (references)

Specialty definitions using "portent": Acorn ♦ portent of embarrassment. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Portent" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (bring, carry).

Domain	Title
Books	Lady of the Mansion: Originally Published As the Portent (reference) Large Scale Foreign Policy Change: The Nixon Doctrine As History and Portent (Policy Papers in International Affairs, No 35) (reference) Planning cities : legacy and portent (reference) Portent (reference) The Portent (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Arabs Siriens, aveugl portent un paralitique / Dumas PHt. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen.		Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen.
	Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Portent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Portent" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.3%	26	68,323
Adjective (general or positive)	3.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

Expression using "portent": portent of embarrassment. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "portent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paralajmërim (admonishment, admonition, caution, exhortation, forerunner, notice, premonition, presage, prognostic, tip off, warning), shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal), ogur (augury, foretoken, omen, prodigy). (various references)

Arabic		‏معجزة (marvel, miracle, prodigy, wonder), ‏نذير (foreboding, harbinger, harbor, harbour, precursor, presage), ‏أعجوبة (marvel, miracle), ‏بشير (augury, omen, precursor, presage). (various references)

Bulgarian		чудо (marvel, miracle, prodigy, ripping, wonder), знамение (auspice, foretoken, knell, omen, presage, prognostic, sacrament, sign), предвестник (forerunner, harbinger, messenger, precursor, prognostic), предзнаменование (adumbration, auspice, prognostic, prognostication), поличба (augury, auspice, foreboding, omen, prognostic, prognostication, sign). (various references)

Czech		předzvìst (foreshadow, foretaste, Herald, omen, presage), špatné znamení. (various references)

Dutch		voorteken (indication, omen, precursor, presage, sign), voorbode (herald, indication, omen, precursor, presage, sign). (various references)

Esperanto		antaŭsigno (indication, omen, precursor, presage, sign), aŭguro (indication, omen, presage, sign). (various references)

Faeroese		varningur (indication, omen, presage, sign), spádómur (indication, omen, presage, sign), fyriboðan (indication, omen, presage, sign). (various references)

Farsi		فال بد, نشانه (Allegory, Emblem, Mark, Marker, Omen, Presage, Proof, Reminiscence, Sacrament, Sign, Symptom, Token), خبربد, شگفتی (Amazement, Marvel, Prodigy, Singular, Singularity), بدیمن بودن . (various references)

Finnish		enne (augury, omen). (various references)

French		prodige, présage, augure. (various references)

Frisian		foarteken (indication, omen, precursor, presage, sign), fiarsizzing (indication, omen, presage, sign). (various references)

German		Vorbedeutung (bode, indication, omen, presage, prognostic, sign), Omen (bode, omen, omens). (various references)

Greek		κακόσ οιωνόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		אות לבאות (augury, foretoken, presage). (various references)

Hungarian		elõjel (augury, auscultation, bode, foreshadow, foretoken, harbinger, precursor, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication). (various references)

Italian		presagio (augury, foreboding, omen, prediction, presage), portento (prodigy, wonder), augurio (augury, greeting, indication, omen, precursor, presage, sign, wish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		前触れ (harbinger, herald, previous notice), 前表 (harbinger, omen, premonition, sign), 前徴 (harbinger, omen, premonition, sign), 前兆 (harbinger, omen, premonition, sign), 兆 (billion, indication, omen, sign, signs, symptoms, trillion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぜ�"ぴょう (all the rest, harbinger, omen, premonition, sign, the whole), ぜ�"ちょう (harbinger, omen, over-all length, premonition, sign, span), まえぶれ (harbinger, herald, previous notice), ちょう (billion, block, bowels, butterfly, cake, condoling with, frivolity, government office, guts, hyper-, indication, intestines, leaf, mourning, omen, pitch, sign, super-, tempo, time, tone, trillion, ultra-). (various references)

Manx		monney (foreboding, foreshadow, much, omen, particle, premonition, presage, scrap, sign). (various references)

Pig Latin		ortentpay

Portuguese		prognosticar (augur, divine, forebode, forecast, forethought, forever, prognosticate), profecia (auspice, forecast, foretoken, indication, message, omen, oracle, precognition, predictive, presage, prophecy), presságio (augury, bodement, boding, earnest, foreboding, foretoken, indication, omen, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication, threat), portento (prodigy, wonder, wonderwork), maravilha (knockout, marigold, marvel, miracle, prodigy, wonder, wonderment, wonderwork), augúrio (augury, indication, omen, presage), agouro (bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, indication, omen, presage, prognostic), adivinhação (divination, enigma, forty, guest, indication, omen, presage, puzzle, riddle). (various references)

Romanian		prevestire (augury, auspice, foreboding, omen, prediction, presentiment, prognostication, sooth), semn (auspice, badge, Beck, brand, character, denotation, dint, emblem, evidence, Favor, favour, gesture, impress, index, indication, Mark, note, office, print, property, scar, score, scratch, seal, sign, signal, splash, spot, symbol, symptom, token, trace, track, vestige, wave), minune (marvel, miracle, prodigy, wonder). (various references)

Russian		чудо (marvel, miracle, phoenix, prodigy, wonder, wonderwork, wonder-work). (various references)

Scottish		manadh (an omen, omen, sign). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predznak (auspice, foretoken, harbinger, omen, petrel, presage, prognostic, prognostication, sign), kob (fate, hap, rencontre). (various references)

Spanish		agüero (indication, omen, precursor, presage, sign). (various references)

Swedish		förebud (auspice, foreboding, harbinger, Herald, knell, omen, presage, prognostication). (various references)

Turkish		kehanet (augury, denouncement, divination, omen, oracle, oracular, prediction, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, second sight, Sibylline, soothsaying, vaticination), kötüye işaret, kötülük belirtisi, delalet. (various references)

Ukrainian		ознака (augury, badge, bodement, character, characteristic, diagnostic, indication, note, omen, ostent, prognostic, prophet, sign, testimonial, vestige), передвісник, диво (miracle, prodigy, whiz, whizz, wonderment). (various references)

Welsh		arwydd (ensign, sign, signal). (various references)

Yucatec		tamax chi' (indication, omen, precursor, presage, sign). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ales, asan, asar, asem, aser, asim, asom, asor, avem, aves, avesque, avi, avibus, avim, avis, avium, monstra, monstris, monstrorum, monstrum, omen, ostenta, portenta, portentaque, portentis, portento, portentorum, portentum, prodigia, prodigiis, prodigiorum, prodigium. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	beacen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	1 Chronicles Chapter 23, Verse 26
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai oi leuitai ouk hsan aironteV thn skhnhn kai ta panta skeuh authV eiV thn leitourgian authV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Nec erit officii Levitarum ut ultra portent tabernaculum et omnia vasa eius ad ministrandum
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And also to the Levites: they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for its service.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites.
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Language	1 Chronicles Chapter 23, Verse 26
Cebuano	Ug ang mga Levihanon usab wala nay kinahanglan nga magdala sa tabernaculo ug sa tanang mga sudlanan niana alang sa pag-alagad diha.
Croatian	Zato ni leviti neæe više nositi Prebivališta ni svakovrsnog pribora za njegovu službu."
Danish	derfor behøver Leviterne heller ikke mere at bære Boligen og alle de Ting, som hører til dens Tjeneste."
Dutch	En ook aangaande de Levieten, dat zij den tabernakel, noch enig van deszelfs gereedschap, tot deszelfs dienst behorende, niet meer zouden dragen.
Finnish	Niinpä ei leeviläistenkään tarvitse kantaa asumusta eikä mitään kaluja, joita tarvitaan siinä tehtävissä töissä."
French	et les Lévites n`auront plus � porter le tabernacle et tous les ustensiles pour son service.
German	So wurden auch die Kinder Levi gezählt von zwanzig Jahren und darüber, da sie ja die Wohnung nicht mehr zu tragen hatten mit all ihrem Geräte ihres Amts,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Karena itu, Kemah TUHAN dan semua perkakas yang dipakai untuk ibadat tidak perlu lagi dipikul oleh orang Lewi."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka sebab itu tiada usah orang Lewi lagi mengusung kemah sembahyang atau barang perkakas yang terpakai kepada pekerjaannya.
Maori	Me nga Riwaiti, heoi ano ta ratou amohanga i te tapenakara, me ona mea katoa mo nga mahi ki reira.
Norwegian	derfor har heller ikke levittene lenger nødig å bære tabernaklet og alle de til tjenesten der hørende redskaper.
Portuguese	Também os levitas não terão mais de levar o tabernáculo e todos os objetos pertencentes ao serviço do mesmo.
Rumanian	wi Leviyii nu vor mai avea sq poarte cortul wi toate uneltele pentru slujba lui.``
Russian	Й МЕЧЙФБН ОЕ ОХЦОП ОПУЙФШ УЛЙОЙА Й ЧУСЛЙЕ ЧЕЭЙ ЕЕ �"МС УМХЦЕОЙС Ч ОЕК.
Spanish	Y también los levitas no tendrán que transportar el tabernáculo ni ninguno de sus utensilios para su servicio."
Swedish	därför behöva icke heller leviterna mer bära tabernaklet och alla redskap till tjänstgöringen därvid."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "portent": portentous, portentously, portentousness, portentousnesses, portents. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Portent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parten, partent, partnet, Polten, porcent, Porden, Porfert, portan, portant, porten, porteno, portentum, portin, Portinatx, Portney, Potenz, pourtant, Proment, protent, prouten, purent. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "portent" (pronounced pô"rtent)
4	-t e n t	content.
3	-e n t	admonishment, Ament, comment, compliment, disfigurement, document, foment, reorient.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-n-o-p-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: potent, potter, rotten, torten.
	-2 letters: netop, noter, otter, petto, prone, repot, rotte, tenor, toner, toper, torte, toter, trone, trope.
	-3 letters: nett, nope, note, open, pent, peon, pert, poet, pone, pore, porn, port, rent, repo, rope, rote, tent, tern, tone, tope, tore, torn, tort, tote, tret, trop, trot.
	-4 letters: eon, ern, net, nor, not, one.
	Words containing the letters "e-n-o-p-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: entrepot, patentor, portents.
	+2 letters: entoproct, entrepots, patentors, pothunter, pottering, prepotent, protonate, repotting, sternpost.
	+3 letters: countertop, deportment, entoprocts, interpoint, intertroop, introspect, overpotent, petitioner, pinspotter, portamenti, portamento, portentous, pothunters, precontact, protectant, protecting, protection, protestant, protesting, protonated, protonates, repetition, replotting, reputation, respotting, sternposts, topnotcher.
	+4 letters: antipoverty, antistrophe, compartment, comportment, contretemps, counterpart, counterplot, counterstep, countertops, crepitation, deportation, deportments, disportment, enteropathy, expectorant, exportation, extirpation, fetoprotein, impetration, importunate, interceptor, interpoints, interpolate, interruptor, introspects, luteotropin, ornithopter, orthopteran, outsprinted, partitioned, partitioner, paternoster, penetration, peritonitis, permutation, petitionary, petitioners, pinspotters, pirouetting, pluripotent, portamentos, portmanteau, postconcert, potentiator, potteringly, prepotently, pretentious, protectants, protections, protestants, protonemata, protoplanet, protuberant, repartition, repetitions, reputations, retinopathy, septentrion, teleporting, topnotchers, topocentric, transported, transportee, transporter, trepanation, trepidation, treponemata, tryptophane, unprotected.
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