Prophetic warning shout to players (8)
I believe the answer is:
forecast
'prophetic warning' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'shout to players' is the wordplay.
'shout' shows a homophone (sound like) (I've seen 'shouted' mean this (how the word might sound if shouted)).
'to' becomes 'for'.
'players' becomes 'cast' (group of actors).
'for' sounds like 'fore'.
'fore'+'cast'='FORECAST'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for forecast that I've seen before include "tip" , "Divine" , "Fear Scot in prediction" , "Predict as with weather" , "Expect" .)