Prefigure

Quick meaning: Prefigure is a verb meaning (often in a Biblical context) To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.

Meaning

(often in a Biblical context) To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.

More Meanings

1. To predict or foresee.
2. That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.

Example Sentences

Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.

In his influential commentary (the Moralia) Gregory the Great interpreted the protagonist typologically as a prefigure of Christ and of the Church persecuted.

Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.

Word Forms

• prefigures
• prefiguring
• prefigured

Synonyms for prefigure

Depending on context, synonyms include presage, portend, forereckon, foreshadow, announce, augur.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include auspicate, foretell, foreshadow, prognosticate, forecast, bode.

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