| Main Entry: | auspices |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection; support |
Synonyms: |
advocacy, aegis, authority, backing, care, charge, control, countenance, guidance, influence, patronage, sponsorship, supervision |
| Main Entry: | auspice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
Synonyms: |
augury, foreshadowing, harbinger, portent, prognostication, sign, warning |
| Main Entry: | auspice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | patronage |
Synonyms: |
advocacy, aegis, auspices, backing, guidance, patronization, protection, sponsorship, support |
| Main Entry: | aegis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
Synonyms: |
auspices, backing, patronage, shelter, sponsorship, wing* |
| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
| Main Entry: | augury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
Synonyms: |
auspice, boding, forerunner, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, portent, precursor, presage, prognostication, promise, prophecy, sign, token, warning |
| Notes: | omen has a negative connotation, a connotation absent from the word augury; generally, augury bodes well for the future, an omen bodes ill |
| Main Entry: | backing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
Synonyms: |
abetment, accompaniment, adherence, advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, championing, championship, encouragement, endorsement, funds, grant, help, patronage, reinforcement, sanction, secondment, sponsorship, subsidy |
Antonyms: |
disfavor, opposition |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody of person, usually child |
Synonyms: |
administration, aegis, auspices, charge, control, direction, guardianship, keeping, management, ministration, protection, safekeeping, superintendence, supervision, trust, tutelage, ward, wardship |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
Synonyms: |
aegis, auspices, care, conservation, custodianship, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, ward, wardship, watch |
| Main Entry: | guidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counseling |
Synonyms: |
advice, auspices, conduct, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, government, help, instruction, intelligence, leadership, management, navigation, supervision, teaching |