Presage

Definition: Presage

Presage

Noun

1. A foreboding about what is about to happen.

2. A sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle".

Verb

1. Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "presage" was first used: 14th century (usage as a noun). (references)

Etymology: Presage \Pre*sage"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Presaged(-s[=a]jd"); Presaging. ] [French pr['e]sager, Latin praesagire: prae before + sagire to perceive acutely or sharply. See Sagacious.]. (references)

Synonyms: Presage

Omen

Noun: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign; (indication); harbinger; (precursor); yule candle.

Prediction

Presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow; portend; foreshow, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to.

Priority

Verb: precede, come before; forerun; go before; (lead); preexist; dawn; presage; herald, usher in.

Crosswords: Presage

Books

• Presage (reference)

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Music

• Presage [IMPORT] (reference)

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Economic History

Austria

A large-scale union demonstration in July 2001 in response to this pressure may presage further industrial action; but this would be a departure from Austria's mostly calm post-war labor history. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

parandjenjë (feeling, foreboding, misdoubt, prescience, prevision), parandiej (feel, forebode), paralajmëroj (admonish, bespeak, bode, caution, exhort, forebode, forecast, forerun, foreshadow, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, hint, notice, previse, threaten, tip off, tip the wink, warn), paralajmërim (admonishment, admonition, caution, exhortation, forerunner, notice, portent, premonition, prognostic, tip off, warning), shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نذير (foreboding, harbinger, harbor, harbour, portent, precursor), ‏تنبأ (bode, divine, forebode, foresee, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prognosticate, prophesy, slate), ‏توقع (anticipate, anticipation, await, contemplate, expect, expectancy, expectation, foresee, look forward to, wait), ‏بشير (augury, omen, portent, precursor), ‏بشر (bode, break the news, buoyancy, foretoken, man, person, promise, prophesy, rasp). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вещая (augur, bode, forebode, portend, prognosticate), знамение (auspice, foretoken, knell, omen, portent, prognostic, sacrament, sign), предсказвам (augur, forecast, foresay, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise, prophesy), предсказание (forecast, oracle, prognostic, prophecy), предчувствувам (anticipate, divine, feel, forebode, prevision, sense), предчувствие (augury, divination, hunch, precognition, premonition, presentiment, prevision), предвестие (foretoken), предвещавам (adumbrate, augur, betoken, bode, forerun, foreshadow, portend, prognosticate, shadow, spell, threaten). (various references)

Czech

předzvìst (foreshadow, foretaste, Herald, omen, portent), předpovídat (forecast, foretell, prognosticate, tell), znamení (sign, sign of the zodiac, signal, tip off, token), vìštit (divine, prophesy, soothsay, tell fortunes, vaticinate), tušit (conjecture, forebode, sense, smell, surmise, suspect). (various references)

Dutch

voorteken (indication, omen, portent, precursor, sign), voorbode (herald, indication, omen, portent, precursor, sign), teken (character, indication, mark, omen, portent, precursor, proof, sign, signal, symptom, token). (various references)

Esperanto

antaŭsigno (indication, omen, portent, precursor, sign), aŭguro (indication, omen, portent, sign). (various references)

Faeroese

varningur (indication, omen, portent, sign), spádómur (indication, omen, portent, sign), fyriboðan (indication, omen, portent, sign). (various references)

Farsi 

فال نما, پیشگوءی کردن (Abode, Bode, Portend, Predict), نشانه (Allegory, Emblem, Mark, Marker, Omen, Portent, Proof, Reminiscence, Sacrament, Sign, Symptom, Token), نشان (Aim, Attribute, Badge, Banner, Brand, Clue, Emblem, Ensign, Hallmark, Impress, Mark, Medal, Memento, Plaque, Score, Seal, Show, Sign, Signal, Stamp, Standard, Symbol, Symptom, Tally, Target, Token, Trace, Track, Tract), گواهی دادن بر, علامت (Allegory, Badge, Banner, Brand, Emblem, Mark, Marker, Name, Showing, Sign, Signal, Stripe, Symbol, Symptom, Tally, Tick, Token), خبردادن از (Threaten), شگون (Augur, Auspices). (various references)

French

prévoir (predict, provide), présager (predict, prognosticate), présage (prognostic), augure. (various references)

Frisian

foarteken (indication, omen, portent, precursor, sign), fiarsizzing (indication, omen, portent, sign). (various references)

German

Vorzeichen (algebraic sign, early symptom, indication, key signature, omen, portent, precursor, sign), Vorbedeutung (bode, indication, omen, portent, prognostic, sign), Anzeichen (augury, character, evidence, indication, manifestation, mark, omen, portent, precursor, sign, symptom). (various references)

Greek 

προμήνυμα (bodement, foreboding, foretoken, omen, portent, prognostication). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבשר (augur, bode, bring good news, forebode, foreshadow, portend, promise), ל� בא (bode, divine, foretell, predict, prophesy), אות לבאות (augury, foretoken, portent). (various references)

Hungarian

sejtelem (boding, inkling, presentiment, suspicion), előérzet (adumbration, anticipation, aura, aurae, boding, misgiving, premonition), ómen (augury, boding, foreboding, omen, portent, prognostication). (various references)

Indonesian

meramalkan (angur, forecast, portend, predict), menandai (certify, designnate, sign). (various references)

Italian

augurio (augury, greeting, indication, omen, portent, precursor, sign, wish). (various references)

Manx

monney (foreboding, foreshadow, much, omen, particle, portent, premonition, scrap, sign), cur raue jeh. (various references)

Pig Latin

esagepray.(various references)

Portuguese

presságio (augury, bodement, boding, earnest, foreboding, foretoken, indication, omen, portent, premonition, prognostic, prognostication, threat), agouro (bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, indication, omen, portent, prognostic). (various references)

Romanian

prognozã (forecast, prognosis), prezice (cast, forebode, forecast, foretell, foretoken, predict, prognosticate, prophesy, signify), prevestire rea (knell), prevesti (augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, divine, forebode, forerun, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, harbinger, portend, predict, prognosticate, promise, threaten), presimţi ceva rãu (apprehend, forebode), presentiment rãu. (various references)

Russian 

предсказание (forecast, oracle, prognostic, vaticination, weird), предчувствие (premonition, presentiment), предвещать (auguring, bespeak, bode, forebode, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, harbinger, portend), предзнаменовывать, предзнаменование (augury, auspice, foretoken, omen, portent, prognostication). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proricati (augur, foreshadow, predict, soothsay, vaticinate), predznak (auspice, foretoken, harbinger, omen, petrel, portent, prognostic, prognostication, sign), slutnja (foreboding, hunch, misgiving), slutiti (bode, misgive, suspect, take a notion). (various references)

Spanish

agüero (indication, omen, portent, precursor, sign). (various references)

Swedish

förebud (auspice, foreboding, harbinger, Herald, knell, omen, portent, prognostication), förebåda (adumbrate, augur, bode, forebode, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, omen, portend, prognosticate, promise). (various references)

Turkish

malum olmak, kehanette bulunmak (augur, cast, denounce, divine, foretell, omen, oracle, predict, prognosticate, prophesy, soothsay, vaticinate), kehanet (augury, denouncement, divination, omen, oracle, oracular, portent, prediction, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, second sight, Sibylline, soothsaying, vaticination), içine doğmak (divine, forebode, guess, have a feeling, intuit), içine doğma (a hunch, foreboding, premonition, presentiment), alâmet (augury, miracle, omen, prognostication, sign), önsezi (a hunch, foreboding, foresight, forethought, hunch, intuition, precognition, premonition, prescience, presentiment, sixth sense, vision), önceden haber vermek (forebode, foretell, give notice, predict, prognosticate, prophesy), önceden görmek (anticipate, foresee). (various references)

Ukrainian

віщування (oracle, soothsaying), пророкувати (foretell, predict, prophesy, vaticinate), провіщати (adumbrate, bode, cast, divine, forebode, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, harbinger, omen, portend, predict, prognosticate, promise, shadow, signify, threaten, vaticinate, warn), погане передчуття (spectre), передчувати (anticipate, apprehend, bode, forebode, foreshadow, foretaste, hope, suspect), передвістя (augury, bode, foreshadow, foretoken, omen, prognosticator), передбачати (allow for, anticipate, apprehend, cover, divine, envisage, envision, forecast, foresee, previse, prognosticate, provide). (various references)

Vietnamese 

triệu linh cảm, sự cảm thấy trước, điềm (boding, foreboder, foretoken, herald, omen, portend). (various references)

Yucatec

tamax chi' (indication, omen, portent, precursor, sign). (various references)

ales, avis, monens, monent, monentes, monentis, moneret, monita, monuit, omen, salomone. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "presage": presaged, presageful, presager, presagers, presages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Presage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pariage, Persae, plesage, presa, presgae, presige, pressage, Pressager, prestage, presute, Preussag, prisyaga, Prosafe, resage, resige, resoge. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: agrees, eagers, eagres, gapers, gasper, grapes, grease, pagers, parges, peages, ragees, repegs, serape, sparge.

-2 letters: agers, agree, apers, apres, asper, eager, eagre, egers, erase, gaper, gapes, gears, grape, grasp, grees, pager, pages, pares, parge, parse, peage, peags, pears, pease, peers, perea, perse, prase, prees, presa, prese, ragee, rages, rapes, reaps, reges, repeg.

+1 letter: asperges, peerages, presaged, presager, presages, pugarees.

+2 letters: amperages, creepages, graperies, graphemes, megaspore, passenger, personage, presagers, puggarees, repassage.

+3 letters: cooperages, expressage, expurgates, grapevines, megaparsec, megaspores, operagoers, parentages, passengers, persiflage, personages, pilferages, porbeagles, porterages, presageful, prestorage, repackages, repassages, repechages, reportages, respeaking, scapegrace, spongeware, superagent, superlarge, telegraphs.

+4 letters: arpeggiates, bespreading, biographees, epigraphers, epigraphies, espaliering, expressages, gamekeepers, gatekeepers, generalship, geographers, geographies, goalkeepers, grapinesses, greasepaint, greaseproof, hypergamies, impregnates, megaparsecs, pageantries, parageneses, paragenesis, peppergrass, percentages, permillages, persiflages, prearranges, preassigned, precreasing, pregnancies, prehearings, prepackages, prestorages, repackagers, repugnances, respreading, scapegraces, serigrapher, spongewares, stereograph, superagency, superagents, supercharge.