PREMONITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does premonition mean? 

• PREMONITION (noun)
  The noun PREMONITION has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of evil to come

2. an early warning about a future event

  Familiarity information: PREMONITION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREMONITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of evil to come

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

boding; foreboding; premonition; presentiment

Context example:

the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case

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

apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)

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

shadow (a premonition of something adverse)

presage (a foreboding about what is about to happen)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An early warning about a future event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

forewarning; premonition

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

warning (a message informing of danger)

 Context examples 

You left them, then, without any premonition of evil?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin opened it with a premonition of disaster, and read it standing at the open door when he had received it from the postman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With a premonition of his fate he had refused to take me with him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)