Definition of premonition
1 : previous notice or warning : forewarning
2 : anticipation of an event without conscious reason : presentiment
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Examples of premonition in a Sentence
She had a premonition that he would call.
she had a premonition that her cat would somehow get hurt that day
Recent Examples of premonition from the Web
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The room blinked back into focus: shop windows now faded blue-black, a vague premonition passing like a shadow across my chest.
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WASHINGTON — The premonition came in a Winston-Salem conference room, on an otherwise happy election night in 2004, before Richard M. Burr of North Carolina had even declared victory in his bid to join the Senate.
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CAMERA OBSCURA Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, a war photographer begins to see real premonitions of deaths in his pictures.
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Bannon has apparently had premonitions of his own exit.
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A premonition and a dream Myra Thompson seemed to know something would happen to her.
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A premonition and a dream Myra Thompson seemed to know something would happen to her.
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My mother, too, has had her share of strange premonitions: accidents foretold, telephones answered before the first ring.
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Certain instrumental lines unexpectedly stabbed out of the larger textures, like premonitions of the murder to come.
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Origin and Etymology of premonition
Middle English premunition, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin premunition-, premunitio, alteration of Late Latin praemonitio, from Latin praemonēre to warn in advance, from prae- + monēre to warn — more at mind
PREMONITION Defined for English Language Learners
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: a feeling or belief that something is going to happen when there is no definite reason to believe it will
PREMONITION Defined for Kids
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: a feeling that something is going to happen
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