Übersetzung für 'Portent' von Englisch nach Deutsch

portent

Omen {n}

Vorzeichen {n}

Zeichen {n} [Anzeichen, Omen]

Werbung

portent [of sth. calamitous]

böses Omen {n}

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portent of sth. calamitous

Menetekel {n} [geh.]

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event of dire portent

Geschehnis {f}, das Böses ahnen lässt

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Portent [James Herbert]

Apokalypselit.F

• Bon Accord are said to have arrived for the match without any form of standard football kit, a portent of what was to follow.
• An omen (also called "portent") is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change.
• His approach to asymmetrical warfare was seen by some as an unfortunate portent of post-World War II conflicts.
• "The writing on the wall" is an idiomatic expression that suggests a portent of doom or misfortune, based on the story of Belshazzar's feast in the book of Daniel.
• During medieval India Bhavabhuti was a famous dramatist, he had three portent plays Malati-Madhava, Magviracharita and the Uttar Ramacharita.

• Doors and doorways frequently appear in literature and the arts with metaphorical or allegorical import as a portent of change.
• According to Welsh folklore, their growling is loudest when they are at a distance, and as they draw nearer, it grows softer and softer. Their coming is generally seen as a death portent.
• He then receives a letter from Joachim Stiller, in which Stiller announces that the event he witnessed is a portent.
• In Ireland, they are an ominous portent, foretelling death, either one's own or a death in the family. The washerwomen of Ireland wash the bloodied shirts of those about to die.
• That was a portent of things to come as the team won the Bowl Final at Murrayfield at the end of that season.

• When Masakado was preparing for his revolt, a vast swarm of butterflies appeared in Kyoto, a portent of the upcoming battle.
• The Indians were amazed by that portent.
• Before the end credits, Nana, in the underground theatre, notices the red star props suspended overhead as a portent of death.
• The Sumerian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2100 ) has the mother of Gilgamesh interpreting a dream of Gilgamesh (a portent of the advent of Enkidu).
• Although 1936 is typically seen as the end of Maine's status as a national bellwether, White's narrow victory in strongly Republican Maine may have been a portent of doom for Alf Landon's fall presidential campaign, in which he carried only Maine and nearby Vermont.

• The Skriker is an ancient shape-shifting fairy and death portent in a search for revenge and love.
• Created at the end of the American Civil War, "Aurora Borealis" (1865) was believed to depict the portent of a simultaneously triumphant and desolate Union victory, its meaning amplified in relation to later works, including "The After Glow" (1867) and other works.
• His attitudes and inspiration for his missions could have been due to his belief in Premillennialism or Millennialism, and the famine was a portent.
• Mintaka was seen by astrologers as a portent of good fortune.