foretastenoun [ S ]
uk/ˈfɔː.teɪst/us/ˈfɔːr.teɪst/something that gives you an idea of what something else is like by allowing you to experience a small example of it before it happens:
a foretaste of spring
The recent factory closures and job losses are just a foretaste of the recession that is to come.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- intentional
- promise
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
- strategic
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