Definitions for portents

portents por·tent

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

Portents is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in portents (enoprstt).

Definitions for portents

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 portents

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

Examples for portents

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

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

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

Online activity is not therefore a portent of offline activity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for portents
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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