foredream
foredream noun: a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope.
Noun
foredream (plural foredreams)
- a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope
- […] with its impressive motto, were all subservient to that grave and visioned mood in which the moral thought of this life, and foredream of the next, steal with a luxurious melancholy over the heart.1833, The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c, Volume 4
- She remembered her terrible foredream of the sack of Turbansk and felt a suffocating despair rising in her breast.2010, Alison Croggon, The Riddle: The Second Book of Pellinor
Verb
foredream (third-person singular simple present foredreams, present participle foredreaming, simple past and past participle foredreamed or foredreamt)
- to dream beforehand, especially as a premonition
- She had used the only means, and the strongest means, of bringing Gilbert back to France; she had foredreamt his coming, she had foreknown that from the first he would ask for Beatrix; […]1899, Francis Marion Crawford, Via crucis: a romance of the second crusade
- Foredreaming the faith of the future, He knew and preached the truth: […]1964, Jacob Trapp, Modern religious poems, a contemporary anthology
Forms of foredream
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | foredreams |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | foredreams |
| present participle | foredreaming |
| past participle | foredreamed |
| past | foredreamed |
| past participle | foredreamt |
| past | foredreamt |
Origin of foredream
From fore- + dream.
Words that rhyme with foredream
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- upstream
- deem
- dream
- scream
- team
- academe
- bream
- downstream
- esteem
- forebeam
- supreme
- teem
- A team
- ice cream
- under one's own steam
- abeam
- addeem
- astream
- beseem
- centime
- decime
- deme
- fleam
- inseam
- Karim
- preem
- rheme
- seem
- agleam
- breme
- buffer beam
- distream
- haem
- heme
- Kareem
- kilim
- leam
- leme
- let off steam
- meem
- misesteem
- misseem
- neem
- on stream
- prime
- redream
- reem
- reim
Questions about foredream
- What does foredream mean?
- Foredream means a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope.
- What part of speech is foredream?
- Foredream can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of foredream?
- The plural of foredream is foredreams.
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