foreboder

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English

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Etymology

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From forebode +‎ -er.

Noun

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foreboder (plural foreboders)

  1. (archaic) an oracle; one who tells the future.
  2. (uncountable) Something that implies the imminent occurrence of another event.
    The cold was a foreboder of the nightmares of the winter that lay ahead.
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