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PREINDICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preindication mean? 

PREINDICATION (noun)
  The noun PREINDICATION has 1 sense:

1. an event that is experienced as indicating important things to comeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PREINDICATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

augury; foretoken; preindication; sign

Context example:

it was a sign from God

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

experience (an event as apprehended)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preindication"):

war cloud (an ominous sign that war threatens)

omen; portent; presage; prodigy; prognostic; prognostication (a sign of something about to happen)


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