'Foretoken' definitions:
Definition of 'foretoken'
(from WordNet)
noun
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication]
Definition of 'Foretoken'
From: GCIDE
- Foretoken \Fore"to`ken\, n. [AS. foret[=a]cen. See Token.] Prognostic; previous omen. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Foretoken'
From: GCIDE
- Foretoken \Fore*to"ken\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretokened; p. pr. & vb. n. Foretokening.] [AS. foret[=a]cnian; fore + t[=a]cnian.] To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. [1913 Webster]
- Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. --Daniel.
Synonyms of 'foretoken'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adumbration,
- augur,
- augury,
- auspice,
- badge,
- betoken,
- betokening,
- betokenment,
- bode,
- boding,
- divine,
- forebode,
- forerunner,
- foreshadow,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshow,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- harbinger,
- herald,
- hint,
- indicant,
- indicate,
- indication,
- inkling,
- intimation,
- mark,
- mean,
- note,
- omen,
- ostent,
- point to,
- portend,
- portent,
- precursor,
- prefiguration,
- prefigure,
- preindicate,
- preindication,
- premonitory shiver,
- premonitory sign,
- premonitory symptom,
- presage,
- presign,
- presignal,
- presignify,
- presignifying,
- pretypify,
- prognostic,
- prognostication,
- promise,
- shadow,
- sign,
- signify,
- soothsay,
- spell,
- suggestion,
- symptom,
- token,
- tokening,
- type,
- typify,
- warning