Presage

Quick meaning: Presage is a noun meaning A warning of a future event; an omen.

Meaning

A warning of a future event; an omen.

More Meanings

1. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
2. (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
3. (intransitive) To make a prediction.
4. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Example Sentences

Glad was I when I reached the other bank. / Now for a better country. Vain presage!

Speak frankly, Mirzes—nor believe thy words, / Whatever black preſages they contain, / Subjoin'd to all Trophonius hath foretold, / Can change my firm reſolves, or blunt my ſword.

That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.

If I may truſt the flattering truth of ſleepe, / My dreames preſage ſome ioyfull newes at hand : / My boſomes L. ſits lightly in his throne : / And all this day an vnaccuſtom’d ſpirit, / Lifts me aboue the ground with cheatfull thoughts […]

Word Forms

• presages
• presaging
• presaged

Synonyms for presage

Depending on context, synonyms include foreshadow, forespell, portend, augur, portent, omen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include omen, portend, bode, portent, foretell, prognostic.

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