foretaste

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fore=taste

CIDE DICTIONARY

foretaste, n. 

 A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.  [1913 Webster]

foretaste, v. t. 

•  To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.  [1913 Webster]
•  To taste before another.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

foretaste, n. & v.
--n. partial enjoyment or suffering in advance; anticipation.
--v.tr. taste beforehand; anticipate the experience of.

THESAURUS

foretaste

antepast, anticipate, antipasto, aperitif, appetizer, canape, contemplate, envisage, envision, foreglimpse, forerun, foresee, forestall, get ahead of, go before, go off half-cocked, jump the gun, look ahead, look beyond, look forward to, predict, prelibation, see ahead, see beforehand, smorgasbord, whet, win the start

ROGET THESAURUS

foretaste

Foresight

N foresight, prospicience, prevision, long- sightedness, anticipation, providence, forethought, forecast, predeliberation, presurmise, foregone conclusion, prudence, foreknowledge, prognosis, precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment, second sight, sagacity, antepast, prelibation, prophasis, prospect, foretaste, prospectus, foreseeing, prescient, farseeing, farsighted, sagacious, weatherwise, provident, prospective, against the time when, cernit omnia Deus vindex, mihi cura futuri, run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.