Dictionary

presage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪˈseɪdʒ/ (UK)
• /ˈpɹɛsɪdʒ/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English presage, from Latin praesāgium.

Meanings

1. A warning of a future event; an omen.
   • 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. a. 1786, [Richard Glover], “Book the Twenty-eighth”, in [Mrs. Halsey], editor, The Athenaid, a Poem, […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 213, lines 354–357:
2. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
   • Glad was I when I reached the other bank. / Now for a better country. Vain presage! 1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 22, page 143:

Forms

Deriveds

presageful

Translations (30)

bg предчувствие (intuition; presentiment) · es presagio (warning; omen) · ro inituiție (intuition; presentiment) · ca presagi (intuition; presentiment) · ka ცუდი წინათგრძნობის ქონა (warning; omen) · nl voorteken (warning; omen) · fi aavistus (intuition; presentiment) · bg знамение (warning; omen) · cs předtucha (intuition; presentiment) · nl voorgevoel (intuition; presentiment) · cmn 預兆 /预兆 (warning; omen) · ro avertiza (warning; omen) · ro presentiment (intuition; presentiment) · fi enne (warning; omen) · it presagio (warning; omen) · ro prefigura (warning; omen) · ca presagi (warning; omen) · cs předzvěst (warning; omen) · uk передві́стя (warning; omen) · fr présage (warning; omen) · ka წინათგრძნობა (intuition; presentiment) · ota اوغور (warning; omen) · cmn 徵兆 /征兆 (warning; omen) · ro prefigura (intuition; presentiment) · ca intuïció (intuition; presentiment) · ru предзнаменова́ние (warning; omen) · ru предчу́вствие (intuition; presentiment) · el προμήνυμα (warning; omen) · bg поличба (warning; omen) · cmn 預感 /预感 (intuition; presentiment)

presage en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪˈseɪdʒ/ (UK)
• /ˈpɹɛsɪdʒ/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English presage, from Latin praesāgium.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
   • 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. 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a second term, Obama will confront familiar headwinds”, in The New York Times:
   • 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 […] (Q2 version)
2. (intransitive) To make a prediction.
3. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Forms

Deriveds

presagingly · presager · unpresaging · unpresaged · presagement

Synonyms

forespell · portend · foreshadow

Translations (18)

es presentir (to have a presentiment of) · fi ounastella (to have a presentiment of) · cs být předzvěstí (to predict or foretell something) · cs věštit (to have a presentiment of) · bg предчувствам (to have a presentiment of) · la ōminor (to predict or foretell something) · fi ennustaa (to predict or foretell something) · nl voorvoelen (to have a presentiment of) · bg предсказвам (to predict or foretell something) · nl voorspellen (to predict or foretell something) · fi ennustaa (to make a prediction) · nl een voorgevoel hebben (to have a presentiment of) · fi aavistaa (to have a presentiment of) · es presagiar (to predict or foretell something) · cs předpovídat (to predict or foretell something) · fi uumoilla (to have a presentiment of) · nl aankondigen (to predict or foretell something) · bg предвещавам (to make a prediction)