- presage - a foreboding about what is about to happen
--1 is a kind of foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding
- omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
--2 is a kind of augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
--2 has particulars: auspice; foreboding; death knellDerived form: verb presage1 - omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
- bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
--1 is one way to bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun presage2
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