1. a person or thing that foreshadows or indicates something that will happen in the future
Usage: often used in literary or formal contexts

Examples

• The dark clouds were a foreboder of the storm to come.
• Many saw the economic decline as a foreboder of recession.
• The sudden silence in the forest was a foreboder of danger.
• Her nervous behavior proved to be a foreboder of bad news.
• The ancient texts described comets as forebroders of great change.