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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.
Drew Gilpin Faust

Meaning of "presage" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PRESAGE

From Latin praesāgium presentiment, from praesāgīre to perceive beforehand, from sāgīre to perceive acutely.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PRESAGE

presage  [ˈprɛsɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRESAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Presage is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb presage in English.

WHAT DOES PRESAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

presage

Nissan Presage

The Nissan Presage is a large MPV produced by Japanese automaker Nissan since 1998. The Presage is only officially sold by Nissan in Hong Kong, Singapore, Brunei and Japan. The name "Presage" is French for "omen".

Definition of presage in the English dictionary

The first definition of presage in the dictionary is an intimation or warning of something about to happen; portent; omen. Other definition of presage is a sense of what is about to happen; foreboding. Presage is also a forecast or prediction.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PRESAGE

PRESENT

Present
I presage
you presage
he/she/it presages
we presage
you presage
they presage
Present continuous
I am presaging
you are presaging
he/she/it is presaging
we are presaging
you are presaging
they are presaging
Present perfect
I have presaged
you have presaged
he/she/it has presaged
we have presaged
you have presaged
they have presaged
Present perfect continuous
I have been presaging
you have been presaging
he/she/it has been presaging
we have been presaging
you have been presaging
they have been presaging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I presaged
you presaged
he/she/it presaged
we presaged
you presaged
they presaged
Past continuous
I was presaging
you were presaging
he/she/it was presaging
we were presaging
you were presaging
they were presaging
Past perfect
I had presaged
you had presaged
he/she/it had presaged
we had presaged
you had presaged
they had presaged
Past perfect continuous
I had been presaging
you had been presaging
he/she/it had been presaging
we had been presaging
you had been presaging
they had been presaging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will presage
you will presage
he/she/it will presage
we will presage
you will presage
they will presage
Future continuous
I will be presaging
you will be presaging
he/she/it will be presaging
we will be presaging
you will be presaging
they will be presaging
Future perfect
I will have presaged
you will have presaged
he/she/it will have presaged
we will have presaged
you will have presaged
they will have presaged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been presaging
you will have been presaging
he/she/it will have been presaging
we will have been presaging
you will have been presaging
they will have been presaging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would presage
you would presage
he/she/it would presage
we would presage
you would presage
they would presage
Conditional continuous
I would be presaging
you would be presaging
he/she/it would be presaging
we would be presaging
you would be presaging
they would be presaging
Conditional perfect
I would have presage
you would have presage
he/she/it would have presage
we would have presage
you would have presage
they would have presage
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been presaging
you would have been presaging
he/she/it would have been presaging
we would have been presaging
you would have been presaging
they would have been presaging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you presage
we let´s presage
you presage
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to presage
Past participle
presaged
Present Participle
presaging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRESAGE


abusage
æbˈjuːsɪdʒ
brassage
ˈbræsɪdʒ
disusage
dɪsˈjuːsɪdʒ
dosage
ˈdəʊsɪdʒ
expressage
ɪkˈsprɛsɪdʒ
malaxage
ˈmɑːlæksɪdʒ
message
ˈmɛsɪdʒ
misusage
ˌmɪsˈjuːsɪdʒ
off-message
ˌɒfˈmesɪdʒ
overdosage
ˌəʊvəˈdəʊsɪdʒ
passage
ˈpæsɪdʒ
repassage
riːˈpæsɪdʒ
rite-of-passage
ˌraɪtəvˈpæsɪdʒ
sausage
ˈsɒsɪdʒ
spousage
ˈspaʊsɪdʒ
surplusage
ˈsɜːpləsɪdʒ
Telemessage
ˈtɛlɪˌmɛsɪdʒ
usage
ˈjuːsɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRESAGE

presa
presageful
presagefully
presagement
presager
presale
presanctify
Presb.
presbyacousis
presbyacuses
presbyacusis
presbycouses
presbycousis
presbycuses
presbycusis
presbyope
presbyopia
presbyopic
presbyopy
presbyte

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRESAGE

corsage
dressage
envisage
error message
get the message
instant message
massage
Northwest Passage
Osage
paysage
rite de passage
rite of passage
sage
stone massage
subliminal message
Swedish massage
telephone message
text message
vernissage
visage

Synonyms and antonyms of presage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRESAGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «presage» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of presage

Translation of «presage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRESAGE

Find out the translation of presage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of presage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «presage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

预示
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

presagiar
570 millions of speakers

English

presage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सगुन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نذيرا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

предвещать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

presságio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পূর্বসূচনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

présage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Masa depan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vorzeichen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

予感
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Presage
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dự cảm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சூசகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेजेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alâmet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

presagio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zapowiadać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

передвіщати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prevesti
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προμηνύουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vir teken
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

presage
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forløpere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of presage

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESAGE»

The term «presage» is regularly used and occupies the 62.094 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «presage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «presage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about presage

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QUOTES WITH «PRESAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word presage.
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Drew Gilpin Faust
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRESAGE»

Discover the use of presage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to presage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Does the Community College Baccalaureate Presage ...
Michelle Diane Plecha. Plecha. M. D. (1998). Influence of study group attendance and students perceived helpfulness on expected grade. Los Angeles, CA: ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges (ERIC Document Reproduction Service ...
Michelle Diane Plecha, 2007
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Torque
PRESAGE. HIGHWAY. STAR. Nissan's maiden foray into the large MPV segment here is a conservative effort. The facelift has given the MPV a more aggressive ' face' that resembles the striking Murano. As MPVs go, the top- trim Highway Star  ...
3
World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering ...
Abstract—Recently, a novel transparent polymer dosimeter, PRESAGE, has been introduced. Radical initiator and leuco dye are two main parts of this dosimeter influencing its' dose response. To study the effect of a solid polymer dosimeter ...
Olaf Dössel, Wolfgang C. Schlegel, 2010
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Issues in Discovery, Experimental, and Laboratory Medicine: ...
(2010 MAY 3) Duke University Medical Center, Durham: Investigation of the feasibility of relative 3D dosimetry in the Radiologic Physics Center Head and Neck IMRT phantom using presage/optical-CT Data detailed in 'Investigation of the ...
‎2012
5
A Conception of Teaching
Potential Correlates of Criteria of Teacher Effectiveness Criteria of Teacher Effectiveness Presage Variables Process Variables Outcome Variables of the achievement variables. Also, it admitted criteria of teaching other than student ...
Nathaniel L. Gage, 2009
6
Issues in Biophysics and Geophysics Research and ...
New research, 'Investigation into the feasibility of using PRESAGE/optical-CT dosimetry for the verification of gating treatments,' is the subject of a report. “This work presents an investigation into the use of PRESAGE dosimeters with an ...
‎2012
7
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... bode, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, omen, portend, presage, promise foreboding n syn APPREHENSION 3, apprehensiveness, misgiving, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment rel augury, foretoken, omen, portent, prognostic ; ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet
241. Refutation. of. Pasquier's. Presage. One would not have to be a very great magician to make the prediction made by the author of the Recherches de la France. Everything was so much disposed for a great fracas that it was to all intents ...
Pierre Bayle, 2000
9
Presage
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Seth Andrew Custer, 2011
10
Effective Interprofessional Education: Development, ...
Returning to presage, process and product In Chapter three we spent some time considering aspects of presage, process and product in relation to interprofessional education. The concepts presage, process and product form a useful ...
Della S. Freeth, Marilyn Hammick, Scott Reeves, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRESAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term presage is used in the context of the following news items.
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New Radicals' only hit, “You Get What You Give,” was secretly …
Still another throwaway line even seems to presage his disappearance: “Don't give up / Just don't be afraid to leave.” In fact, “You Get What ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
2
These 6 stocks are doing all the heavy lifting for the market right now …
"The concentrated gains are spurring concerns that soft trading in much of the market could presage a pullback in the indexes," The Journal ... «Businessinsider India, Jul 15»
3
Dollar's dip at start of the week stems recent gold selling
... in growth-focused assets — notably weak industrial resources and the return of equity volatility in China — presage another global economic ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
4
Biocon opens book for Syngene IPO
The company will now be hoping Monday's sharp fall does not presage a new downswing. The Sensex suffered its biggest one-day drop in two ... «FinanceAsia, Jul 15»
5
Whitney Tilson: Berkshire Hathaway Worth $267000 A Share
The concentrated gains are spurring concerns that soft trading in much of the market could presage a pullback in the indexes. Many investors ... «ValueWalk, Jul 15»
6
The Morning Download: All Tech Eventually Goes Through Brussels
The concentrated gains are spurring concerns that soft trading in much of the market could presage a pullback in the indexes. Can we create ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
7
Thank you, Donald Trump
... or undocumented aliens already IN the country today, not to mention those still coming) presage a potentially disastrous future for America. «Coos Bay World, Jul 15»
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Saul, Glyndebourne, Glynde, near Lewes, until Saturday, August 29 …
... Katrin Lea Tag's staging of the second act as a black-and-white psychodrama with flickering candles snuffed out to presage the battlefield annihilation. «The Argus, Jul 15»
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'Operation Truck Stop' enforcement effort targets off-toll-road traffic in …
If efforts like “Operation Truck Stop” continue and/or multiply around other parts of the state, it could presage a return to an even more active ... «Overdrive Magazine, Jul 15»
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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Minions' Fun, at Least for the Kids
This should presage the wild success of “Minions” in the United States ... This should presage the wild success of “Minions” in the United States ... «Bucks Local News, Jul 15»

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