foresound
English
Alternative forms
- fore-sound
Etymology
From fore- + sound.
Noun
foresound (plural foresounds)
- a sound made in advance
- 1900, Henry Thew Stephenson, Patroon Van Volkenberg:
- Then of a sudden, without any foresounds, the scratching began again.
- 2013, Charles Davison, A Study Of Recent Earthquakes:
- In Great Britain, on the contrary, the fore-sound is perceptible to four, and the aftersound to three, out of every five observers; and these proportions are maintained roughly to considerable distances from the epicentre.
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Antonyms
- aftersound
Verb
foresound (third-person singular simple present foresounds, present participle foresounding, simple past and past participle foresounded)
- (transitive) to sound in advance
- 1810, John Nott, Robert Herrick, Select poems from the Hesperides:
- Of ash-heaps, in the which ye use
Husbands and wives by streaks to chuse;
Of crackling laurel, which foresounds
A plenteous harvest to your grounds; […]
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Anagrams
- sunroofed