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PRESAGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sign of something about to happen

Example:

he looked for an omen before going into battle

Synonyms:

omen; portent; presage; prodigy; prognostic; prognostication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("presage" is a kind of...):

augury; foretoken; preindication; sign (an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "presage"):

auspice (a favorable omen)

foreboding (an unfavorable omen)

death knell (an omen of death or destruction)

Derivation:

presage (indicate, as with a sign or an omen)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A foreboding about what is about to happen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("presage" is a kind of...):

boding; foreboding; premonition; presentiment (a feeling of evil to come)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicate, as with a sign or an omen

Example:

These signs bode bad news

Synonyms:

augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "presage" is one way to...):

bespeak; betoken; indicate; point; signal (be a signal for or a symptom of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "presage"):

threaten (to be a menacing indication of something)

foreshow (foretell by divine inspiration)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

presage (a sign of something about to happen)

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