foreshow

1. 1.

   foretell by divine inspiration

   Broaderbode

Other forms of foreshow

past tense or participle

foreshown

present participle

foreshowing·

third person

foreshows·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foreshow

What does foreshow mean?

foreshow means "foretell by divine inspiration".

How many syllables are in foreshow?

foreshow has 3 syllables: fo-re-show. The stress falls on "fo".

Is foreshow a common word?

foreshow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.