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[ fawr-shad-oh, fohr- ] / fɔrˈʃæd oʊ, foʊr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR foreshadow ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object)to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war. Origin of foreshadowFirst recorded in 1570–80; fore- + shadow OTHER WORDS FROM foreshadowfore·shad·ow·er, nounWords nearby foreshadowforerunner, foresaddle, foresaid, foresail, foresee, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshank, foresheet, foreshock, foreshore Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for foreshadowNeatly, it also serves as foreshadowing for Paris’s romance with Asher Fleming, also introduced in this episode. Every episode of Gilmore Girls, ranked|Constance Grady|October 6, 2020|Vox The huge buildup in delinquencies foreshadows the flood to come. Housing flips the recession script: Prices will keep rising for up to a year, but here’s how the party will end|Shawn Tully|October 4, 2020|Fortune His attorney will likely claim self-defense, as foreshadowed by the president. Our nation turns its lonely eyes to Kenosha|Ellen McGirt|September 1, 2020|Fortune So while modest, Neuralink’s research already foreshadows how this technology could one day change life as we know it. Elon Musk is one step closer to connecting a computer to your brain|Rebecca Heilweil|August 28, 2020|Vox
And, a few researchers suspect, it may even foreshadow a new perspective on reality. The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View|Charlie Wood|August 20, 2020|Quanta Magazine That would only foreshadow the “fractured antislavery world” to come, as Kantrowitz calls it, which emerged after the Civil War. Did the Civil War Achieve Equality? Stephen Kantrowitz’s ‘More Than Freedom’|Eric Herschthal|August 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST Weirdly, he mostly avoided Cubism, even though he got wild Cezannes that foreshadow that movement. Philadelphia’s Reopened Barnes Foundation Puts Its Masterpieces in a Better Light|Blake Gopnik|May 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST The harshest hit in what's available publicly is saved for the Obamas and could foreshadow a talking point if she runs in 2012. The Biggest Leaks From Palin's Book|Shushannah Walshe|November 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST A little occurrence, toward evening, however, seemed to foreshadow it. Hoosier Mosaics|Maurice Thompson The exquisite German gold and metal-work of the Charlemagne period seems to foreshadow the work of the great Nuremberg goldsmiths. The Story of Nuremberg|Cecil Headlam These rose-tinted dawns too often foreshadow the storm-cloud. These mythological ballads, if I may use the expression, foreshadow the dramatic and epic poetry of a later age. A History of Sanskrit Literature|Arthur A. MacDonell His view of the relation of God to his creatures is held to foreshadow the pantheism of Spinoza. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4|Various
British Dictionary definitions for foreshadow
verb(tr) to show, indicate, or suggest in advance; presage Derived forms of foreshadowforeshadower, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to foreshadowprefigure, predict, portend, imply, foretell, augur, presage, omen, hint, suggest, signal, betoken, adumbrate, forebode, promise, shadow, bode, prophesy, telegraph |