premonition

C2+ Topic:Emotions & Feelings

US /ˌprɛməˈnɪʃən/ UK /ˌprɛməˈnɪʃən/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
a strong feeling that something, often unpleasant, is about to happen

She had a premonition that the trip would end badly.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a strong feeling that... foreboding presentiment intuition hunch portentforewarningmisgiving

Word family

Related forms premonitory monition admonish

Etymology

From Middle French premonition, from Late Latin praemonitio ('a forewarning'), from praemonere ('to warn beforehand'), from prae- ('before') + monere ('to warn').

praemonitio Latin monere Latin

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Topics

Emotions & Feelings Word Formation & Derivatives

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# premonition

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˌprɛməˈnɪʃən/
**IPA (UK):** /ˌprɛməˈnɪʃən/

## Meanings
1. a strong feeling that something, often unpleasant, is about to happen

## Examples
- She had a premonition that the trip would end badly.

## Synonyms
- foreboding
- presentiment
- intuition
- hunch
- portent
- forewarning
- misgiving

## Related Forms
- premonitory
- monition
- admonish

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: praemonitio
- Root: monere

## Etymology
From Middle French premonition, from Late Latin praemonitio ('a forewarning'), from praemonere ('to warn beforehand'), from prae- ('before') + monere ('to warn').

## AI Etymology
Premonition is from Middle French premonition, from Late Latin praemonitio ('a forewarning'), from praemonere ('to warn beforehand'), from prae- ('before') + monere ('to warn'). Important recorded forms include praemonitio (Latin) and monere (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers a strong feeling that something, often unpleasant, is about to happen. The wider family includes related words such as premonitory, monition, and admonish.

## Topics
- Emotions & Feelings
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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