augury
Meaning of augury
noun
- a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen.
they heard the sound as an augury of death
late Middle English (in the sense ‘divination’): from Old French augurie or Latin augurium ‘interpretation of omens’, from augur (see augur).
Information about augury
- It is a name.
- The plural form of augury is: auguries.
- Languages in which augury is used:
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Hyphenation of augury
au-gury
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- augury is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
augury synonyms
Meaning sign:
sign, foretoken, preindication
Translation of augury
- French: présage, augure, auspice
- Spanish: presagio, augurio
- Italian: presagio, augurio
- Portuguese: presságio, agouro
- German: Omen
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