foretaste
an indication of something that will happen in the future
TRANSLATION
foretaste = der Vorgeschmack --- GOOGLE INDEX foretaste: approximately 1,300,000 Google hits
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IN THE PRESS
Louisville got a FORETASTE of next May's scheduled visit of the Dalai Lama on Monday as chanting monks joined city officials and others in a small, crowded temple to formally announce the Tibetan Buddhist leader's schedule .
(The Louisville Courier-Journal)
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They have come here to Svalbard, the last landfall between Scandinavia and the polar ice cap, for their winter ice training, a FORETASTE of the massive challenge that awaits them.
(BBC News)
(The Louisville Courier-Journal)
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They have come here to Svalbard, the last landfall between Scandinavia and the polar ice cap, for their winter ice training, a FORETASTE of the massive challenge that awaits them.
(BBC News)
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foretaste
noun
- a sample or suggestion of something that lies ahead
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Foretaste is a compound noun that combines "taste" with the prefix "fore," meaning advanced. Fore was used as a prefix in Old English and other Germanic languages with a sense of "before in time, rank, position," etc., or designating the front part or earliest time.
Taste is from the Old French "taster" "to taste" and further from the Vulgar Latin "tastare," to feel or touch. Tastare is apparently an alteration of taxtare, a frequentative form of the Latin "taxare," to evaluate, handle. The sense of having a certain taste or flavour emerged in the mid-1500s and eventually replaced "smack" in this usage. The sense of "aesthetic judgment" — as in having good or bad taste — is first attested in the 1670s.
The prefix fore can be found in a variety of words. As in foretaste, it is often used to indicate a preview of something. Interestingly enough, it is also applied to note the past in some cases, as in something that happens before. Here is a foretaste of other "fore words":
- forecast = fore + cast (as in "to look"). A forecast is a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future. (The weather forecast calls for sunny skies and warm temperatures)
- foreboding = fore + bode (as in "to predict). Foreboding is a feeling that something bad is going to happen. (Downswings in the stock market don't give me a sense of foreboding because there are always upswings)
- forefather = fore + father. A forefather, or forefathers as the word is generally used, is a relation who lived a long time ago. (My forefathers emigrated from Russia in the 18th century)
- forego = for + go. Forego, sometimes written as forgo, means to go or do without something. (Let's forego the small talk and get right to the point of the meeting)
- foreword = fore + word. A foreword is a short piece of writing at the beginning of a book or other document that is used by the author or someone else as an introduction. (The CEO will write the foreword for the annual report)
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"Eating gingerbread cookies in October always gives me a foretaste of Christmas."
noun
- a sample or suggestion of something that lies ahead
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Foretaste is a compound noun that combines "taste" with the prefix "fore," meaning advanced. Fore was used as a prefix in Old English and other Germanic languages with a sense of "before in time, rank, position," etc., or designating the front part or earliest time.
Taste is from the Old French "taster" "to taste" and further from the Vulgar Latin "tastare," to feel or touch. Tastare is apparently an alteration of taxtare, a frequentative form of the Latin "taxare," to evaluate, handle. The sense of having a certain taste or flavour emerged in the mid-1500s and eventually replaced "smack" in this usage. The sense of "aesthetic judgment" — as in having good or bad taste — is first attested in the 1670s.
The prefix fore can be found in a variety of words. As in foretaste, it is often used to indicate a preview of something. Interestingly enough, it is also applied to note the past in some cases, as in something that happens before. Here is a foretaste of other "fore words":
- forecast = fore + cast (as in "to look"). A forecast is a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future. (The weather forecast calls for sunny skies and warm temperatures)
- foreboding = fore + bode (as in "to predict). Foreboding is a feeling that something bad is going to happen. (Downswings in the stock market don't give me a sense of foreboding because there are always upswings)
- forefather = fore + father. A forefather, or forefathers as the word is generally used, is a relation who lived a long time ago. (My forefathers emigrated from Russia in the 18th century)
- forego = for + go. Forego, sometimes written as forgo, means to go or do without something. (Let's forego the small talk and get right to the point of the meeting)
- foreword = fore + word. A foreword is a short piece of writing at the beginning of a book or other document that is used by the author or someone else as an introduction. (The CEO will write the foreword for the annual report)
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SYNONYMS
preview, sample
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Eating gingerbread cookies in October always gives me a foretaste of Christmas."
