Definitions for portent

portent por·tent

Spelling: [pawr-tent, pohr-]
IPA: /ˈpɔr tɛnt, ˈpoʊr-/

Portent is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in portent (enoprtt).

Definitions for portent

noun

  1. an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
  2. threatening or disquieting significance:
  3. a prodigy or marvel.

Origin of portent

1555-65; Latin portentum sign, token, noun use of neuter of portentus, past participle of portendere to portend

Examples for portent

The silence without was only portent of the storm so soon to burst.

At times, it seemed Leonard was awaiting a portent or an omen.

Lapid is the first politician to emerge from this politics and is in any case a portent of things to come.

They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.

Online activity is not therefore a portent of offline activity.

It was the hush of portent, the hush of watchfulness, the hush of a threatening tension.

Is this a passing phase or a portent of something more serious?

And, try as I might, I felt it to be a portent and a prophecy.

As the great commentator, the Ramban, teaches, “everything that happened to the Patriarchs is a portent for the children.”

It was because he was a failure in literature that he became a portent in English history.

Word Value for portent
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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