foredream
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope
Example Sentences
- "[…] with its impressive motto, were all subservient to that grave and visioned mood in which the moral thought of this life, and foredream of the next, steal with a luxurious melancholy over the heart."
- "She remembered her terrible foredream of the sack of Turbansk and felt a suffocating despair rising in her breast."
- "We piece a foredream of the gathered light Infinitely small and great to shelter all, […]"
- "She had used the only means, and the strongest means, of bringing Gilbert back to France; she had foredreamt his coming, she had foreknown that from the first he would ask for Beatrix; […]"
- "Foredreaming the faith of the future, He knew and preached the truth: […]"
- "With regard to dreams, there is one interesting fact to be noted here: the belief, namely, that in prophetic dreams of death it will always be a veyola (real kinsman), usually the sister's son, who will foredream his uncle's death."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
foredreams (plural)
foredreams (present, singular)
foredreaming (participle, present)
foredreamed (participle, past)
foredreamed (past)
foredreamt (participle, past)
foredreamt (past)