presage

1. 1.

   indicate, as with a sign or an omen

   “These signs bode bad news”

   Synonymsbodeportendauspicateprognosticateomenbetokenforeshadowaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredict

   Broaderbespeak

   Narrowerthreatenforeshow

Other forms of presage

plural

presages·

past tense

presaged·

present participle

presaging·

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 presage

What does presage mean?

presage means "a foreboding about what is about to happen". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in presage?

presage has 2 syllables: pres-age. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɛsɪdʒ/.

What is another word for presage?

Close synonyms include omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy. 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 presage a common word?

presage 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.