Definition of forewarning in English:
forewarning
noun fɔːˈwɔːnɪŋfɔrˈwɔrnɪŋ
An advance warning.
officials had no forewarning of the attacks
Example sentencesExamples
- As a forewarning, this is my longest chapter yet, but it is also crucial to the plot development that I am trying to reach, and to introduce elements and thoughts that will play larger roles in the future.
- We had good collaboration, and as the gentleman mentioned earlier, we had a lot of forewarning, a lot of cancellations.
- If I'd taken his strange forewarnings seriously, I might've been prepared to deal with the loss.
- The UN failed to respond to impending massacres despite forewarnings in all three cases.
- Put baldly, millions of evangelical Christians see forewarnings of Armageddon in the crisis in the Middle East.
Definition of forewarning in US English:
forewarning
nounfôrˈwôrniNGfɔrˈwɔrnɪŋ
An advance warning.
officials had no forewarning of the attacks
Example sentencesExamples
- If I'd taken his strange forewarnings seriously, I might've been prepared to deal with the loss.
- The UN failed to respond to impending massacres despite forewarnings in all three cases.
- Put baldly, millions of evangelical Christians see forewarnings of Armageddon in the crisis in the Middle East.
- As a forewarning, this is my longest chapter yet, but it is also crucial to the plot development that I am trying to reach, and to introduce elements and thoughts that will play larger roles in the future.
- We had good collaboration, and as the gentleman mentioned earlier, we had a lot of forewarning, a lot of cancellations.