Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A presentiment of the future; a foreboding.
  • noun A warning in advance; a forewarning.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of premonishing or forewarning; hence, a previous warning or notification of subsequent events; previous information.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
  • noun A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an early warning about a future event
  • noun a feeling of evil to come

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin praemonitiō, praemonitiōn-, from Latin praemonitus, past participle of praemonēre, to forewarn : prae-, pre- + monēre, to warn; see men- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Mid 15th century, from Anglo-Norman premunition, from Late Latin praemonitionem ("a forewarning"), form of praemonitio, from Latin praemonitius, form of praemoneō, from prae ("before") (English pre-) + monere ("to warn") (from which English monitor).

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Examples

  • Many have been dynamic to thoughts Gods will as good as to follow a heading of a Holy Spirit, nonetheless they miss a positive forwardpropelling heart since they have been not certain if a superintendence of their premonition is unconditionally dependable.

    THE DANGERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE-By Watchman Nee A Fair Mitre admin 2009

  • Many have been dynamic to thoughts Gods will as good as to follow a heading of a Holy Spirit, nonetheless they miss a positive forwardpropelling heart since they have been not certain if a superintendence of their premonition is unconditionally dependable.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • I also liked the way premonition is explained in this regard.

    REVIEW: The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose 2009

  • Central America, like those we are living through today, perhaps it was in premonition of the present crossroads, that Rubén

    Oscar Arias Sánchez - Nobel Lecture 1987

  • We are fascinated by the idea of premonition, oracles and anything that would allow a sneak peak at the unknown.

    Buzzine » Joe Manganiello Interview 2009

  • A premonition is an early warning of future events and is dominated by physical sensations: an inexplicable feeling of unease or excitement that something bad or good is about to happen.

    Decoding Your Destiny Ph.D. Carmen Harra 2006

  • A premonition is an early warning of future events and is dominated by physical sensations: an inexplicable feeling of unease or excitement that something bad or good is about to happen.

    Decoding Your Destiny Ph.D. Carmen Harra 2006

  • I had that thing called a premonition that something was dreadfully wrong.

    CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2005 2005

  • His was not an imaginative nature, but a premonition is a premonition, and he had just joined the Big Five, so that his responsibilities, should anything difficult turn up, would be by no means decreased.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • His was not an imaginative nature, but a premonition is a premonition, and he had just joined the Big Five, so that his responsibilities, should anything difficult turn up, would be by no means decreased.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

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