Usually means: Advance notice of something impending.
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  1. forewarning: Merriam-Webster
  2. forewarning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forewarning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. forewarning: Vocabulary.com
  5. forewarning: Wordnik
  6. forewarning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. forewarning: Wiktionary
  8. Forewarning, forewarning: Dictionary.com
  9. Forewarning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. forewarning: Rhymezone
  11. Forewarning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. forewarning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. forewarning: FreeDictionary.org
  14. forewarning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. forewarning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forewarning: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (forewarning)

▸ noun:  An advance warning; an omen.

Similar:
premonition, presaging, premonishment, foretokening, preadmonition, forenotice, foremessage, foreshow, foresign, forecry, more...

Opposite:
surprise, unforeseen, unexpected, unanticipated, shock

Types:
prediction, premonition, omen, warning, foreshadowing, prophecy, sign, signal, more...

Adjectives:
little, adequate, such, more, ample, first, sufficient, sweet, slightest, vague, ominous

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Similar:
premonition, presaging, premonishment, foretokening, preadmonition, forenotice, foremessage, foreshow, foresign, forecry, more...

Opposite:
surprise, unforeseen, unexpected, unanticipated, shock

Types:
prediction, premonition, omen, warning, foreshadowing, prophecy, sign, signal, more...

Adjectives:
little, adequate, such, more, ample, first, sufficient, sweet, slightest, vague, ominous



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