premonitionpre‧mo‧ni‧tion /ˌpreməˈnɪʃən, ˌpriː-/ noun [countable] 
a premonition of deathpremonition that When Anne didn’t arrive, Paul had a premonition that she was in danger.
WORD ORIGINpremonition
Origin:
1500-1600 French, Late Latin praemonitio, from Latin praemonere ‘to warn before’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- She had a premonition that she would die in a plane crash.
- About six months after Mr Reynolds' first premonition, he experienced unexplained noises, mainly thumping and banging.
- Even then I had a premonition of danger, of menace.
- For Kadare, history is not knowledge but illness, and Gjon falls sick with the premonition of an ominous planetary shift.
- He foresaw the decimation of the Hawaiian people; perhaps he had some premonition of his own end too.
- He was sitting in the new, renovated bathroom with the unmistakable premonition that now he was going to be sick.
- In the 1972 single-handed Transatlantic yacht race, a number of hallucinations and illusions were experienced, some of them premonitions.
- She had a premonition that she was going to die, and she did so peacefully.
Longman Language Activatorto think you know what is going to happen in the future
to know that something is going to happen before it actually happens: · No one foresaw the Great Depression of the thirties.· Businesses are alarmed at the costs they foresee in complying with the new rules.foresee that: · Ten years ago she could not have foreseen that her marriage would end in divorce.
also envision to have a clear idea of something that will happen in the future, especially important changes in a situation: · I cannot envisage what the circumstances will be in twenty years' time.· Most of those who voted for independence did not envision war as the eventual outcome.· We do not envisage a general election for at least another two years.
to know or think you know what is going to happen because there are signs that it will: · Jason saw the stock market crash coming and sold most of his shares.· Then one day she just walked out -- I suppose I should have seen it coming really.
informal to think that something is going to happen, especially something bad, not for any clear or specific reason, but just because you have a feeling that it will: · The trip's going to be a disaster - I can feel it in my bones.
to have a strange or unexplainable feeling that something is going to happen, especially something unpleasant: have a premonition (that): · When Paola failed to phone, John had a horrible premonition that she was in danger.have a premonition of: · She shivered suddenly, and I wondered whether she had had a premonition of her own death.
someone who can see into the future has the ability to know what will happen before it happens: · If I could only see into the future and know how this would all end.· Nobody can see into the future, and all stock exchange investment is a gamble.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY When Anne didn’t arrive, Paul had a premonition that she was in danger.
a strange feeling that something, especially something bad, is going to happenpremonition of When Anne didn’t arrive, Paul had a premonition that she was in danger. a premonition of deathpremonition that When Anne didn’t arrive, Paul had a premonition that she was in danger.