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foreshadow

Pronunciation: /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/

The English word “foreshadow” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
  2. Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.

noun

  1. A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.

Etymology

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.

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