foreshadow
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foreshadow
- /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/ UK
- /ˌfɔːˈʃædəʊ/ UK
- /fə-/ UK
- /fɔɹˈʃædoʊ/ US
- /fəɹ-/ US
- /ˈfɔːˌʃædəʊ/ UK
- /ˈfɔɹˌʃædoʊ/ US
Rhymes with -ædəʊ
Where it comes from
The verb is derived from fore- (prefix meaning ‘before with respect to time, earlier’) + shadow (“to shade, cloud, or darken”, verb).
The noun is derived from fore- + shadow (“faint and imperfect representation”, noun), probably modelled after the verb which is attested earlier.
verb foreshadows · foreshadowing · foreshadowed · foreshadow
- To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage. [T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt.
- Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode. Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.
noun foreshadows
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A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.
At present it is only in local glimpses, and by significant fragments, picked often at wide-enough intervals from the original Volume, and carefully collated, that we can hope to impart some outline or foreshadow of this Doctrine.
Similar: foretouch, foreshadowing, omen, augury, auspice, harbinger, portent, presage, prognostic
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verb to suggest (someone or something) in advance — see also prefigure, presage
| Español | agorar, agüerar (desus.), augurar, prefigurar, premostrar, presagiar |
|---|---|
| Português | pressagiar |
| Français | augurer, présager |
| Deutsch | andeuten |
| Italiano | predire, presagire, prevedere |
| Русский | предви́деть predvídetʹ, предвосхища́ть predvosxiščátʹ, предвосхи́тить predvosxítitʹ, предвосхити́ть predvosxitítʹ |
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