Synonyms for augury
ˈɔ gyə riau·gu·ry

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1. augury

   Synonyms:
   prophecy, prediction, divination, conjecture, omen, prognostication

   Antonyms:
   experience, science, observation

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1. augury, sign, foretoken, preindicationnoun

   an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come

   "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God"

   Synonyms:
   foretoken, signaling, house, sign, planetary house, signboard, signal, sign of the zodiac, preindication, mansion, mark, star sign, polarity

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1. augurynoun

   Synonyms:
   prognostication, prognostic, prediction, prophecy, vaticination

2. augurynoun

   Synonyms:
   omen, sign, auspice, portent, presage, prognostic, precursor, forerunner, harbinger, herald

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1. augurynoun

   Synonyms:
   divination, prophecy, omen, portent, auspice, sign

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1. Homer:

   The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

2. William Shakespeare:

   Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?