foreshadow.
To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
Meaning & usage
To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.
Where this word 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.
A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.
Where this word 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.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.