"foresong" meaning in All languages combined

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        "2": "fore",
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      "expansion": "fore- + song",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fore- + song.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foresongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "foresong (plural foresongs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, The Sewanee Review, volumes 1-10",
          "text": "A \"Foresong\" precedes, and an \"Aftersong\" follows, but the \"Vision\" itself is comprised in \"A Song of Songs.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, Gottfried Benn, Primal Vision",
          "text": "Descender from the plains, ultimate moon of all flames, from tumescences of fruit and flower dropping, darkened your face already— fool or baptist, summer's fool, echoer, necrologue, or foresong of glaciers, anyway nutcracker, sedge-cutter, ponderer of platitudes—[...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Neelima Wig, Daybreak",
          "text": "For the smiles across their oiled, blackened faces, a foresong to the future; the loincloth across their groins, only resplendent of an uneducated, poverty-stricken youth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Barbara K. Gold, A Companion to Roman Love Elegy",
          "text": "But when the speaker resolves his foresong into a claim of predilection for the life (and poetics) of love, he does so.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Oscar Wilde in America",
          "text": "Swinburne never published a volume entitled Songs of Democracy, but the third section of “Christmas Antiphones,” “Beyond Church,” is in Swinburne's terms “a foresong of democracy and humanity.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A song sung as an opener to an event or story; prelude"
      ],
      "id": "en-foresong-en-noun-IZfUhRYQ",
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          "song"
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          "prelude",
          "prelude"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foresong"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "fore",
        "3": "song"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + song",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fore- + song.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foresongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "foresong (plural foresongs)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1902, The Sewanee Review, volumes 1-10",
          "text": "A \"Foresong\" precedes, and an \"Aftersong\" follows, but the \"Vision\" itself is comprised in \"A Song of Songs.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, Gottfried Benn, Primal Vision",
          "text": "Descender from the plains, ultimate moon of all flames, from tumescences of fruit and flower dropping, darkened your face already— fool or baptist, summer's fool, echoer, necrologue, or foresong of glaciers, anyway nutcracker, sedge-cutter, ponderer of platitudes—[...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Neelima Wig, Daybreak",
          "text": "For the smiles across their oiled, blackened faces, a foresong to the future; the loincloth across their groins, only resplendent of an uneducated, poverty-stricken youth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Barbara K. Gold, A Companion to Roman Love Elegy",
          "text": "But when the speaker resolves his foresong into a claim of predilection for the life (and poetics) of love, he does so.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Oscar Wilde in America",
          "text": "Swinburne never published a volume entitled Songs of Democracy, but the third section of “Christmas Antiphones,” “Beyond Church,” is in Swinburne's terms “a foresong of democracy and humanity.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A song sung as an opener to an event or story; prelude"
      ],
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