# premonition

Pronunciation: US say "pree-muh-NISH-uhn" /ˌpɹiməˈnɪʃən/; UK

## Noun

1. A strong feeling, dream or vision that something, usually something bad, is going to happen.
   - Simple: A strong feeling or dream that something is going to happen, usually something bad.
   - _Moments before the phone rang, he had a sudden premonition of bad news._
   - _Despite the losing streak, she had a premonition that this would finally be their year._
2. Anything that hints in advance at a development or event still to come.
   - Simple: Something that is an early sign of what will happen or develop later.
   - _The early skirmishes along the border were a premonition of the war that followed._
   - _Looking back, the weak sales of that first model were a premonition of the company's long decline._

## Origin

The word is first used around 1533. Latin prae ("before", English pre-) and moneō ("to warn", source of English monitor) formed praemoneō, which lies behind Ecclesiastical Latin praemonitiōnem ("a forewarning"). That passed into Anglo-Norman as premunition and then into English. Compare the Germanic word forewarning.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/premonition (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).