foretaste

[fawr-teyst, fohr-, fawr-teyst, fohr-]

noun

1. a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.

verb (used with object)

foretasted, foretasting 

1. to have some advance experience or knowledge of (something to come).

foretaste

noun

1. an early but limited experience or awareness of something to come

verb

1. (tr) to have a foretaste of

Word History and Origins

Origin of foretaste¹

First recorded in 1400–50, foretaste is from the late Middle English word fortaste. See fore-, taste

Example Sentences

In a foretaste of his behaviour during his Old Bailey trials, Gordon tried to sack his lawyer and said he was too sick to attend court.

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That applies whether you think the current troubles are just a blip or a foretaste of the job losses that technological changes are bringing to the industry, she said.

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According to the Olympic Studies Center, at this point “they play a double role: In addition to announcing the Games, they provide a foretaste of their visual identity.”

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He warned that religious discrimination of the kind he saw in the Finney case “may spread and may be a foretaste of things to come.”

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“But if this a foretaste of the feast to come, then we’re in massive trouble.”

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