foresound

English

Alternative forms

• fore-sound

Etymology

From fore- +‎ sound.

Noun

foresound (plural foresounds)

1. a sound made in advance
   • 1900, Henry Thew Stephenson, Patroon Van Volkenberg:

     Then of a sudden, without any foresounds, the scratching began again.

   • 2013, Charles Davison, A Study Of Recent Earthquakes:

     In Great Britain, on the contrary, the fore-sound is perceptible to four, and the aftersound to three, out of every five observers; and these proportions are maintained roughly to considerable distances from the epicentre.

Antonyms

• aftersound

Verb

foresound (third-person singular simple present foresounds, present participle foresounding, simple past and past participle foresounded)

1. (transitive) to sound in advance
   • 1810, John Nott, Robert Herrick, Select poems from the Hesperides:

     Of ash-heaps, in the which ye use
     Husbands and wives by streaks to chuse;
     Of crackling laurel, which foresounds
     A plenteous harvest to your grounds; […]

Anagrams

• sunroofed