foretoken

1. 1.

   an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come

   “he hoped it was an augury”

   “it was a sign from God”

   Synonymsaugurysignpreindication

   Broaderexperience

   Narrowerwar cloudomen

Other forms of foretoken

plural

foretokens·

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 foretoken

What does foretoken mean?

foretoken means "an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come".

How many syllables are in foretoken?

foretoken has 4 syllables: fo-re-to-ken. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for foretoken?

Close synonyms include augury, sign, preindication. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foretoken a common word?

foretoken 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.