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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
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