---

• v  be a signal for or a symptom of
• v  indicate by signs

• This may betoken the decline of Protestantism, or it may be a kind of built-in unity movement on the grass-roots level.
• Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken .
• Tracking shots, twisting boom shots, placements that are either radically high or low they all betoken a director who doesn't trust his material.

• bespeak
• indicate
• point
• signal
• bode
• portend
• auspicate
• prognosticate
• omen
• presage
• foreshadow
• augur
• foretell
• prefigure
• forecast
• predict

News & Articles

---

• U.S. cities still struggling, but it doesn’t seem so dire in Minneapolis
  The economy is improving — yes, Virginia, an increase in jobs, a rising stock market and brisker housing sales all betoken recovery — but American cities are still staggering in the aftermath of the Great Recession.     That's the gist of  "America's Big Cities in Volatile Times," a recently released report from the Pew Charitable Trusts, whose analysts assessed the fiscal health of the 30 ...
  Nov. 25, 2013 - MinnPost