augur
Roman omen reader
An augur was a Roman priest who interpreted omens from bird behavior to guide state decisions.
The word now functions mainly as a verb meaning to foretell or serve as an omen: This augurs well for the future, The early results don't augur success.
Something that augurs well or augurs ill suggests a favorable or unfavorable outcome ahead.
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- presageIndicate beforehand
- signMark conveying information
- warningAlert about danger
foreboding · herald · indicator · foreshadowing · prognostic · auspice · foretoken · adumbration
Sponsorship and guidance
- entrailsInternal digestive organs
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- priestOne who performs sacraments
Etruscan · omen · ceremony · magistrate · templum · auspex · college · vestments
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- auspicesSponsorship and guidance
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- readingInterpreting written text
omens · signs · visions · revelation · clairvoyance · foresight · premonition · interpretation
One who predicts futures
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
prognosticator · clairvoyant · diviner · fortune-teller · astrologer · shaman · druid · medium
portent
Sign of future calamity
warning · foreboding · herald · indicator · foreshadowing · prognostic · auspice · foretoken · adumbration · forewarning
auspices
Sponsorship and guidance
- entrailsInternal digestive organs
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
priest · Etruscan · omen · ceremony · magistrate · templum · auspex · college · vestments · consecration
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
reading · omens · signs · visions · revelation · clairvoyance · foresight · premonition · interpretation · casting
soothsayer
One who predicts futures
prophet · prognosticator · clairvoyant · diviner · fortune-teller · astrologer · shaman · druid · medium · mystic
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
prognosticate · divine · portend · presage · bode · herald · indicate · signal · anticipate · forewarn
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- ancient occupationssoldier, merchant, farmer, shepherd, carpenter
- fantasy rolesarcher, barbarian, sorceress, mage, wizard
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- occultistswitches, wizards, sorcerers, sorceresses, warlocks
inaugurate, inauguration, inaugural, inaugurated, augury, inaugurating, augurs, inaugurator, inaugurations