premonition
noun/ˌpreməˈnɪʃn/, /ˌpriːməˈnɪʃn/
/ˌpreməˈnɪʃn/, /ˌpriːməˈnɪʃn/
- a feeling that something is going to happen, especially something unpleasant
- premonition (of something) a premonition of disaster
- premonition (that…) He had a premonition that he would never see her again.
- Perhaps he had a premonition about what might happen in London.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- eerie
- spooky
- feel
- get
- have
- …
- premonition about
- premonition of
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘advance warning’): from French prémonition, from late Latin praemonitio(n-), from Latin praemonere, from prae ‘before’ + monere ‘warn’.
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