Forehear

Quick meaning: Forehear is a verb meaning (transitive, intransitive) To hear beforehand.

Meaning

(transitive, intransitive) To hear beforehand.

Example Sentences

In that flash of time as his fingers had touched the handle of the table-spoon, he had foreseen John's wild rush to the doors, he had foreheard John's agitated cry of "Thieves! Police! Burglars!"

[…] mingled into one beautiful and continuous peal of that earthly harmony which Heaven has given us as a forehearing of those sublimer harmonies that, in its everlasting bowers, take the imprisoned soul, "and lap it in elysium."

Holiday labor at the island today: being his guest is a hazardous responsibility: I foresee a swell and forelean to a spumy pitch and forehear the scuff of a badly perched sack of cement as it slips into the racing bay, and my New York imagination […]

Word Forms

• forehears
• forehearing
• foreheard

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forelearn, foreknow, forefeel, forewarn, prewarn, forehalsen.

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