forewarning

forewarning
    n 1: an early warning about a future event [syn: {forewarning},
         {premonition}]
    

Forewarn \Fore*warn"\ (f[=o]r*w[add]rn"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Forewarned} (f[=o]r*w[add]rnd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Forewarning}.]
   To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition,
   information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
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         We were forewarned of your coming.       --Shak.
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63 Moby Thesaurus words for "forewarning":
      admonition, advance notice, apocalyptic, augural, auguring,
      caution, caveat, divinatory, fatidic, foreboding, forecasting,
      forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretelling,
      foretokening, fortunetelling, haruspical, heavy with meaning,
      indicative, intuitive, mantic, meaningful, monition, monitory,
      oracular, plenty of notice, portent, portentous, precautional,
      precautionary, precautioning, precursive, precursory, predictional,
      predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, preindicative,
      premonition, premonitory, prenotice, prenotification, presageful,
      presaging, presentiment, presignificative, presignifying,
      prewarning, prodromal, prodromic, prognostic, prognosticative,
      prophetic, sibyllic, sibylline, significant, vaticinal,
      vaticinatory, warning, weather-wise