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AUGURY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does augury mean?
• AUGURY (noun)
The noun AUGURY has 1 sense:
1. an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
Familiarity information: AUGURY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
augury; foretoken; preindication; sign
Context example:
it was a sign from God
Hypernyms ("augury" is a kind of...):
experience (an event as apprehended)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "augury"):
war cloud (an ominous sign that war threatens)
omen; portent; presage; prodigy; prognostic; prognostication (a sign of something about to happen)
Derivation:
inaugurate (be a precursor of)
Context examples
He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators who have attempted this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills me with cheerful auguries.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The magistrate observed me with a keen eye and of course drew an unfavourable augury from my manner.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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