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Foretoken

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To indicate or give warning of beforehand; presage.

n. An advance sign; a warning.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentment.

v. To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning; presage.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Prognostic; previous omen.

v. To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A prognostic; a premonitory sign.

To be-token beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come

Word Usage

"Yet in that short, hopeful moment, she had felt him so near to her that it was as if his spirit had floated over the sea unto her, -- what is called a foretoken (_pressigne_) in Breton land; and she listened still more attentively to the steps outside, trusting that some one might come to her to speak of him."

Verb Form

foretokened foretokening foretokens

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

experience

Hyponym

omen prognostication prognostic presage war cloud prodigy portent

Form

foretokened foretokening

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

prognostic foreshow presignify prognosticate sign signify