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Meanings of foretell in English

Portuguese
prognosticar
Catalan
augurar
Spanish
prever

Indicate by signs.

prognosticar
Portuguese
prever
Catalan
anunciar
Spanish
presagiar

Foreshadow or presage.

prever

To make a prediction or prophecy.

Synonyms
Examples for "abode"
Examples for "abode"
1
The abode of the gods; The conditioned promise of godhood in Man.
Cosmic Consciousness / The Man-God Whom We Await
2
The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
3
And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
4
The young bridegroom abode in the palace one hundred and one weeks.
The Grey Fairy Book
5
And there abode no more but the trunk only in the place.
Bible Stories and Religious Classics
1
You must not prophesy; in that, you know, you do not believe.
The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic
2
Even so, the Gaffer Farleigh of the time started to prophesy disaster.
The Pinhoe Egg
3
I prophesy all three of you modest violets will make the team.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
4
It is perhaps foolish to prophesy, but I will take the chance.
The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative
5
Astronomers prophesy the existence of stars long before they can see them.
Love, Life & Work / Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Nat...
1
Thou mayest foreshow the antidote; thou canst not effect the bane.
Zanoni
2
I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
3
This naturally seemed to foreshow what was to be.
Dio's Rome, Volume 6 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
4
What were the sacrifices to foreshow?
The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for...
5
Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
Essays — First Series
Usage of foretell in English
1
S&Ps changes may even foretell a coming upturn for banks, he said.
The Irish Times
2
Could push-ups foretell the future and the state of a person's heart?
The Irish Times
3
I expect the king can foretell he will have a great future.
The red queen
4
No one at present can foretell the outcome of the European War.
The Fight for the Republic in China
5
But you can't foretell the future and you're not a mind reader.
War Of Honor
6
Others said the prophet was an Egyptian, and could foretell the future.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
7
But it was easy to foretell that he would perish by snakebite.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
8
But the dramatic brightening could also foretell an end to the comet.
Wired
9
Perhaps it is we, for no Diviner can foretell its own demise.
Midnight at the well of souls
10
How the following work may be received, I pretend not to foretell.
Evidences of Christianity
11
Under such conditions it did not need keen vision to foretell disaster.
The Winning of the West, Volume 4 / Louisiana and the Northwest,...
12
Weather at sea, weather on the mountains, he could foretell it always.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2
13
What its future fate there will be no man can yet foretell.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
14
But who can foretell the future, or predict the decrees of Fate?
Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
15
Did he not foretell the devouring scourge by which we are visited?
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
16
When or how it shall come I will not attempt to foretell.
North America — Volume 2
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Less common