Augur

Definition:

  • (n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
  • (n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.
  • (v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
  • (v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.
  • (v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.

Compare augur with other words:

augur vs. presage

augur vs. augurial

augur vs. augurship

augur vs. prognosis

adumbrate vs. augur

augur vs. augurer

augur vs. augurate

augur vs. prefigure

augur vs. bode

augur vs. augury

augur vs. omen

augur vs. foretell

augur vs. official

augur vs. diviner