Word Meanings - ABODANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An omen; a portending.

Related words: (words related to ABODANCE)

• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch