FORETASTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foretaste mean? 

• FORETASTE (noun)
  The noun FORETASTE has 1 sense:

1. an early limited awareness of something yet to occur

  Familiarity information: FORETASTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORETASTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An early limited awareness of something yet to occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("foretaste" is a kind of...):

expectation; outlook; prospect (belief about (or mental picture of) the future)

 Context examples 

This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His free hand went to my throat, and in that moment I knew the bitterest foretaste of death earned by one’s own idiocy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Little they cared what anybody thought, for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)