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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
Synonyms
Examples for "announce"
Examples for "announce"
1
Experts expect the other political parties to announce energy market plans too.
The Guardian
2
France will announce next week a set of anti-terrorism measures, officials said.
Reuters
3
However, both sides announce they expect the fight to be particularly tough.
The new yorker
4
The government would announce the bidding results this week, the report said.
Reuters
5
The state news agency said the presidency would announce them on Thursday.
Reuters
1
The benchmarking process should herald progress on modernisation in the education sector.
The Irish Times
2
They say the red comet is a herald of a new age.
A clash of kings
3
The Year of the Dragon may herald firey times for China .
The Irish Times
4
Analysts said the government exit could herald a recovery at the bank.
Reuters
5
Ed Miliband had hoped that 2008 would herald a social democratic moment.
The Guardian
1
Their woes are a harbinger of the developed market pain to come.
Reuters
2
But the weakness is an opportunity, not a harbinger, fund managers say.
Reuters
3
GO's rocky start in 1987 proved a harbinger of things to come.
Wired
4
Last week's developed market wobbles may be a harbinger of deeper falls.
Reuters
5
The countenance of the honest Southron was the harbinger of his news.
The Scottish Chiefs
1
I over-annunciated the words.
She, myself & i
2
"What do you know?" Keene annunciated each word through clenched teeth.
The witch of agnesi
3
On Wednesday, everyone's favorite caffeine distributor annunciated that its first female COO would be former Sam Club's chief executive officer Rosalind Brewer.
Ebony

To make a prediction or prophecy.

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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Foretell through the time
Foretell across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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