premonition
/ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/
premonition noun: a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
Noun
premonition (plural premonitions)
- A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
- Synonyms:
- vision
- A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
- The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of everyone and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 17
- Synonyms:
- bad feeling, foreboding, gut feeling, hunch, second sight
premonition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
premonition in Hindi
- clairvoyant or clairaudient experience
- अंतर्ज्ञान antarjñān
premonition in Tamil
- முன்னுணர்வு, முன்னெச்சரிக்கை
premonition in Bengali
- ভবিষ্যৎ ঘটনার পূর্বাভাস, পূর্বলক্ষণ
premonition in Malayalam
- മുന്നറിയിപ്പ്, സൂചന, താക്കീത്, ഭൂതോദയം
More languagesFewer languages
- premonition in Kannada
- ಮುನ್ನಳುಕು, ಮುನ್ನೆಚ್ಚರಿಕೆ, ಮುನ್ಸೂಚನೆ, ಮುಂಗುರುತು
- premonition in Tagalog
- salagimsim
- premonition in Arabic
- رُؤْيَة ruʔya, نُبُوءَة nubūʔa, حَدْس ḥads
- premonition in Indonesian
- pertanda, firasat
- premonition in Thai
- ลางสังหรณ์
Synonyms of premonition
Forms of premonition
| plural | premonitions |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | præmonition |
Origin of premonition
First use appears c. 1533. From Anglo-Norman premunition, from Ecclesiastical Latin praemonitiōnem (“a forewarning”), form of praemonitiō, from Latin praemonitus, past participle of praemoneō, from prae (“before”) (English pre-) + moneō (“to warn”) (from which English monitor). Compare Germanic forewarning.
Words formed from premonition
Words that rhyme with premonition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about premonition
- What does premonition mean?
- Premonition means a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
- What is premonition in Hindi?
- Premonition in Hindi is अंतर्ज्ञान (antarjñān). See Premonition meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is premonition?
- Premonition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce premonition?
- Premonition is pronounced /ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of premonition?
- The plural of premonition is premonitions.
Words near premonition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: premonition (page history and authors); premonition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); premonition (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); premonition (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); premonition (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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