foreshadow
pronunciation
How to pronounce foreshadow in British English:
UK [fɔ:ˈʃædəʊ]
How to pronounce foreshadow in American English:
US [fɔrˈʃædoʊ]
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- Verb:
- indicate by signs
Word Origin
- foreshadow (v.)
- "indicate beforehand," 1570s, figurative, from fore- + shadow (v.); the notion seems to be a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing. As a noun from 1831. Old English had forescywa "shadow," forescywung "overshadowing."
Example
- 1. The answers in the first area foreshadow most of the rest .
- 2. Indeed , they foreshadow the artist 's drive to assemble objects into auction spectaculars .
- 3. Insider transactions often foreshadow stock movements : some hedge funds employ analysts tracking little else .
- 4. Even as they foreshadow the rise of asia , his numbers also help explain the historical rise of europe .
- 5. A trend often masquerades as a cycle at the start , and evidence suggests that these scarce krill years may foreshadow a new south georgia .