FORESHADOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreshadow mean? 

• FORESHADOW (verb)
  The verb FORESHADOW has 1 sense:

1. indicate, as with a sign or an omen

  Familiarity information: FORESHADOW used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORESHADOW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they foreshadow    ... he / she / it foreshadows   
Past simple: foreshadowed   
Past participle: foreshadowed   
-ing form: foreshadowing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicate, as with a sign or an omen

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate

Context example:

These signs bode bad news

Hypernyms (to "foreshadow" is one way to...):

bespeak; betoken; indicate; point; signal (be a signal for or a symptom of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "foreshadow"):

threaten (to be a menacing indication of something)

foreshow (foretell by divine inspiration)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

foreshadowing (the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand)

 Context examples 

Adding to this compelling narrative is another galaxy, appearing to the lower left of D100 in the image, that foreshadows D100's fate.

(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)

And now, indeed, I began to think that in my old association of her with the stained-glass window in the church, a prophetic foreshadowing of what she would be to me, in the calamity that was to happen in the fullness of time, had found a way into my mind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)