foreshadow

English edit

Etymology edit

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /fɔːˈʃadəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /fɔːɹˈʃædoʊ/
Rhymes: -ædəʊ

Verb edit

foreshadow (third-person singular simple present foreshadows, present participle foreshadowing, simple past and past participle foreshadowed)

(transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. [from 16th c.]
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 84:
  It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.

Translations edit

To presage, or suggest something in advance

Armenian: նախանշել (hy) (naxanšel)
Bulgarian: предвещавам (bg) (predveštavam)
Czech: předznamenávat impf, předznamenat pf, naznačovat (cs) impf, dávat tušit impf
Dutch: beduiden (nl)
Finnish: ennakoida (fi), enteillä (fi)
French: augurer (fr), présager (fr)
Italian: presagire (it), prevedere (it), predire (it)
Portuguese: pressagiar (pt)
Russian: предви́деть (ru) impf (predvídetʹ), предвосхища́ть (ru) impf (predvosxiščátʹ)
Spanish: presagiar (es)
Turkish: belirtisi olmak, haber vermek (tr)