presage
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8.7
- noun
- /ˈprɛsɪdʒ/
- Literature
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presagio
- High breakeven costs for shale oil, oil sands, and expensive GTL are all presages of expensive marginal barrels.
Examples
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She felt a presage of doom when she heard the sirens in the distance.
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For no more the presage of my soul, bride-like, shall peer from its secluding veil.
Blog text (22) -
We're not the only ones to recognize a presage in the making.
Blog text (18) -
This ideal of free choice presages.
Academic text (2018) -
Eliza hoped this wasn't the presage for a dry summer.
Fiction book (1994) -
Perhaps future research should study the backgrounds and presage variables of student teachers in conjunction with teaching performance to determine if any relationships exist between effective teaching and these variables.
Academic text (2005) -
Also, there were no presage or context effects on the way our sample of teachers responded, suggesting that strategy use was distributed in fairly uniform ways.
Academic text (1990) -
The dark clouds were a presage of the storm that was about to hit.
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His sudden illness served as a presage of the troubles to come.
Synonyms
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3.2
An event that shows something is happening or will happen
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4.9
A sign or event that people think shows what will happen next
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7.7
A strong feeling that something bad will happen soon
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1.6
Something that shows there may be danger or a problem
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8.7
A sign that something important, often bad, will happen
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5.6
A sign or notice that something bad will happen
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9.9
A sign people use to guess what will happen
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9.1
A feeling that something bad is about to happen
A sign that shows something will happen in the future
A sign that something important will happen soon
A sign that something will happen in the future
A sign or early example that shows what will happen later
An event or example that shows what will happen later
A picture in the mind of a future event that appears in a dream
How Ominous
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word presage comes from the Latin parts prae- 'before' and sagire 'to feel or know', so a presage is a sign that lets you 'know beforehand' that something, often bad, will happen.