premonitionnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌprem.əˈnɪʃ.ən//ˌpriː.məˈnɪʃ.ən/us/ˌprem.əˈnɪʃ.ən//ˌpriː.məˈnɪʃ.ən/a feeling that something, especially something unpleasant, is going to happen:
[ + that ] He had a premonition that his plane would crash, so he took the train.
She had a sudden premonition of what the future might bring.
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Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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