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- pronunciation:
- pre
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shn
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
an advance sign or warning; forewarning.
Smoke in the weeks before was a premonition of the volcano's eruption.- similar words:
- harbinger
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| definition 2: |
an intuition of a future occurrence; presentiment.
- similar words:
- foreboding
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| related words: |
anticipation, herald, omen, warning |
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| derivation: |
premonitory (adj.) |
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