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Plural of omen

regular plural

The plural of omen is omens.

Forms of omen

Singularomen /ˈəʊ̯mən/
Pluralomens
Countablecountable

Omens in a sentence

  • To receive omens regarding events that will occur throughout an entire year, perform ambulomancy, divination while walking.2008, Dixie Deerman, Steve Rasmussen, The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry ambulomancy
  • All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.1991, Douglas Coupland, “Dead at 30 Buried at 70”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 31. From the entry literally
  • METEOROMANCY: A special branch of astromancy dealing with omens that pertain to shooting stars.[1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published…. From the entry meteoromancy
  • To this class belong the omens drawn from chance meetings with a hare, an eagle, etc.1920, Lewis Spence, An Encyclopædia of Occultism. From the entry apantomancy
  • But there, too, the meteorological omens augured ill.2024 May 9, Ned Temko, “On rare visit, Xi Jinping tries to rescue China’s relationship with Europe”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry augur

Meaning of omen

  1. noun Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
  2. noun A thing of prophetic significance.
  3. verb To be an omen of.

Full definition of omen

Questions about the plural of omen

What is the plural of omen?
The plural of omen is omens.
Is omen countable?
Omen is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: omen (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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