premonition
🇬🇧 UK/,premə'nɪʃ(ə)n/🇺🇸 US/.pri:mә'niʃәn/
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Definitions
n.
A strong feeling or intuition that something, usually unpleasant, is about to happen.
预感,凶兆
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedCommon Collocations
- 1.have a premonition有预感
- 2.a sense of premonition预感之感
- 3.dark premonition不祥预感
- 4.premonition of danger对危险的预感
Example Sentences
- 1.
She had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.
- 2.
She had a strange premonition that something terrible was about to happen.
- 3.
His premonition of danger proved correct when the bridge collapsed.
- 4.
I can't explain it, but I had a premonition we would meet again.