foreshadowing

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• Received-Pronunciation: /(ˌ)fɔːˈʃædəʊɪŋ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /fə-/
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• General-American: /fɔɹˈʃædoʊɪŋ/
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• General-American: /fəɹ-/
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• rhymes with -ædəʊɪŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: F AO0 R SH AE1 D OW0 IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From foreshadow (verb) + -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; or forming present participles of verbs).

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: presagi — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Esperanto: antaŭfiguro — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Finnish: enteily — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Finnish: ennakointi — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• French: augure — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• French: présage — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Georgian: მინიშნება (minišneba) — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• German: Vorahnung — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Greek: προοικονομία (prooikonomía) — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Indonesian: padahan — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Irish: tuar — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Japanese: 伏線 (fukusen) — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Korean: 복선 (bokseon) — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Macedonian: пре́дзнак (prédznak) — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Malay: imbas muka — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Portuguese: augúrio — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Portuguese: presságio — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Spanish: agüero — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Spanish: augurio — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Spanish: prefiguración — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Spanish: premostración — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Spanish: presagio — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Turkish: önceden ima etme — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Welsh: rhagfynegi — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story
• Welsh: rhagarwyddo — literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story