Foretaste
['fɔːteɪst]
Definition
(noun.) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur.
Checked by Giselle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
(v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To taste before another.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Anticipate, FORESTALL.
n. Anticipation, antepast, prelibation, forestalling, presentiment, taste beforehand.
Checker: Natalia
Definition
v.t. to taste before possession: to anticipate: to taste before another.—n. Fore′taste a taste beforehand: anticipation.
Typist: Portia
Examples
- He is a foretaste of a more advanced statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It was this marquee that Mr. Bambridge was bent on buying, and he appeared to like looking inside it frequently, as a foretaste of its possession. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had not had much foretaste of happiness in his previous life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Such instances seem to show that the good sometimes enjoy, in dying, a foretaste of the happy state they are about to enter. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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