foreshadow

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ shadow.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɔːˈʃadəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔːɹˈʃædoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ædəʊ

Verb

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

1. (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

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)