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AUSPICE
Definition of AUSPICE
noun
Patronage or protection.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
AUSPICE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Protection or support; patronage.
noun
A sign indicative of future prospects; an omen.
“Auspices for the venture seemed favorable.”
noun
Observation of and divination from the actions of birds.
noun
An augury from birds; an omen or a sign in general: as, to take the auspices; an auspice of good fortune.
Where it comes from
From Middle French auspice, from Latin auspicium, in turn from auspex.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AUSPICE · 1 relative in the game
AUSPICE in a sentence
“The English noun "auspice," which originally referred to this practice of observing birds to discover omens, also comes from Latin "auspex."”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AUSPICE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 61 boards so far. 118 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
AUSPICE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEIPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of AUSPICE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start AUSPIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found AUSPICE?
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