adj
Meaning 1
Serving as a warning or premonition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
premonitory
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /pɹəˈmɑnɪˌtɔɹi/
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UK: /pɹɪˈmɒnɪtəɹi/
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UK: /pɹɪˈmɒnɪtɹi/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: P R AH0 M AH1 N AH0 T ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
warning of future misfortune
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: precursory
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin praemoni(tus) Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -tōrius Latin praemonitōriusbor. English premonitory Borrowed from Latin praemonitōrius.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: предупредителен (predupreditelen) — serving as warning
- Dutch: waarschuwend — serving as warning
- Finnish: varoittava — serving as warning
- French: prémonitoire — serving as warning
- Spanish: premonitorio — serving as warning
- For quotations using this term, see Citations: premonitory. — serving as warning