foretaste
[noun fawr-teyst, fohr-; verb fawr-teyst, fohr-]
- a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
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- to have some advance experience or knowledge of (something to come).
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Origin of foretaste
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starter, apprehension, joy, prospect, hope, awareness, foresee, assume, await, forecast, see, antipasto, canape, dip, expectancy, outlook, contemplation, impatience, preconception, foresightExamples from the Web for foretaste
Historical Examples
Here, in the middle of Paris, they found a foretaste of the country.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
This prayer is the commencement, the foretaste, of Contemplation.
The Prodigal ReturnsLilian Staveley
There was frost on the grass that morning, a foretaste of winter in the sharp wind.
The Duke Of Chimney ButteG. W. Ogden
The quietness that came over me was like a foretaste of annihilation.
The Shadow-LineJoseph Conrad
As it was, we had but a foretaste and an earnest of that bliss which it was in our power to procure.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
foretaste
- an early but limited experience or awareness of something to come
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- (tr) to have a foretaste of
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Word Origin and History for foretaste
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