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a strong feeling that something, often unpleasant, is about to happen
She had a premonition that the trip would end badly.
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From Middle French premonition, from Late Latin praemonitio ('a forewarning'), from praemonere ('to warn beforehand'), from prae- ('before') + monere ('to warn').
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