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Noun: portent  'por,tent
  1. A sign of something about to happen
    "he looked for a portent before going into battle";
    - omen, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy

Derived forms: portents

Type of: augury, foretoken [literary], sign

Encyclopedia: Portent

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