Foreshadow

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /fɔːˈʃadəʊ/

Origin

From - + shadow.

Full definition of foreshadow

Verb

1. (transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. from 16th c.
• 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.