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Definition

portent /'pↄ:'tent/ n ~ (of sth) ( fml ) နိမိတ္။ အတိတ္နိမိတ္။ The event proved to be a portent of the disaster that was to come. ❍ We shall try to reach an agreement, but the portents are not good. ❏ portentous /pↄ:'tentǝs/ adj ၁။ နိမိတ္ေဆာင္ေသာ။ portentous events/signs. ၂။ ( derog ) ဟန္တစ္လံုးပန္တစ္လံုး (ေလသံျဖင့္)။ adopt a portentous tone. ❏ portentously adv ဟိတ္ႀကီးဟန္ႀကီးျဖင့္။ ‘No good will come of this,’she announced portentously. portentousness n [U]

Examples

1. portent /'pↄ:'tent/ n ~ (of sth) ( fml ) နိမိတ္။ အတိတ္နိမိတ္။ The event proved to be a portent of the disaster that was to come.