Usually means: Hinting at future events subtly.
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  1. foreshadowing: Merriam-Webster
  2. foreshadowing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. foreshadowing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Foreshadowing, foreshadowing: Wordnik
  5. foreshadowing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. foreshadowing: Wiktionary
  7. foreshadowing: Dictionary.com
  8. foreshadowing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Foreshadowing, The Foreshadowing (band), The Foreshadowing (novel), The Foreshadowing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. foreshadowing: Rhymezone
  11. foreshadowing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. foreshadowing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. foreshadowing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foreshadowing: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foreshadowing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foreshadowing)

noun:  (literature, usually uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.

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