0 something usually strange and remarkable that warns of some future happening -- petanda
strange signs and portents.
This net has been a sign and a portent on the fishing horizon for the last two years.
There are ominous portents in that decision, deliberately taken.
He was in office while such strides began to be made by the department in absorbing the full portent of our transport needs.
People wanted to know whether the earthquake was preceded by the usual portents, or whether such signs had now to give way to the tracings of seismographs.
These tendencies and their ramifications are a dangerous portent for the nation's nascent democracy and fragile unity.
The ethereal violin line is broken for an instant by a portentous tolling, a portent that is to be developed throughout the work.
However, there are some good portents for the future.
Serious as they have been, they are surely a small portent of what lies ahead.
