According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.
PREMONITION
forewarning, premonition
(noun) an early warning about a future event
foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding
(noun) a feeling of evil to come; “a steadily escalating sense of foreboding”; “the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
premonition (plural premonitions)
A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
Synonym: vision
A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
Synonyms: bad feeling, gut feeling, foreboding, hunch, second sight (informal)
Source: Wiktionary
Pre`mo*ni"tion, n. Etym: [L. praemonitio. See Premonish.]
Definition: Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
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