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# presentiment

«presentiment» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong feeling that something is going to happen, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (presentiments)

### meaning for a pupil

A presentiment is a strong feeling that something is going to happen, often something bad, though you have no proof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presentiment/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a hero's feeling that danger or a visitor is on the way

### examples

- I had a presentiment that the storm would come. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presentiment/#x1)
- He had a strange presentiment that the witch was near. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presentiment/#x2)
- A presentiment of danger made the boy turn back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presentiment/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «presentiment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presentiment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.