auguries
Signs of things coming
Auguries are signs or omens, especially ones interpreted as predicting the future.
The word comes from ancient Roman practice, where priests called augurs read divine will in the flight patterns of birds.
Now augury appears mostly in literary contexts: The auguries were not favorable for the expedition.
The singular augury can also mean the practice of reading such signs.
Greek prophetic sanctuary
- EtruscanAncient central Italian people
- RomeItaly's capital city
- GreeceBalkan peninsula nation
- tripodStabilizing support structure
sacrifice · entrails · birds · flight · temple · priests · Roman · libation
Ominous indicators of future events
- harbingersSignals of what's ahead
- forewarningsAdvance notices of danger
- presagesIndicates in advance
- signsDisplays conveying information
foreshadowing · warnings · indications · forebodings · premonitions · heralds · tokens · ill-omened
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- predictionForecast of coming events
- soothsayingForetelling future events
- prognosticationForetelling future events
foretelling · foresight · prophesy · foretell · sibyl · precognition · forewarning · prognostic
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
inkling · suspicion · insight · discernment · inner voice · foreboding · feeling · impression
Delphi
Greek prophetic sanctuary
tripod · sacrifice · entrails · birds · flight · temple · priests · Roman · libation · vestal
portents
Ominous indicators of future events
- harbingersSignals of what's ahead
- forewarningsAdvance notices of danger
- presagesIndicates in advance
signs · foreshadowing · warnings · indications · forebodings · premonitions · heralds · tokens · ill-omened · black cat
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- predictionForecast of coming events
- soothsayingForetelling future events
prognostication · foretelling · foresight · prophesy · foretell · sibyl · precognition · forewarning · prognostic · Nostradamus
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
premonition · inkling · suspicion · insight · discernment · inner voice · foreboding · feeling · impression · presentiment
- premonitionspremonitions, forebodings, presentiments, forewarnings, omens
- prophecyprophecy, prophet, seer, prophets, prophetess
- signsstop sign, sign, signs, road sign, exit
auguriescertainties
Assured truths
facts · proofs · certainty · actualities · sure things
augurieshistories
Accounts of past events
records · chronicles · annals · retrospectives · memoirs
auguriesevidence
Facts supporting truth
proof · scientific data · demonstrations · verifications · measurements