foretell

From Middle English foretellen, equivalent to fore- +‎ tell.

• enPR: fôr-tĕlʹ, IPA^(key): /fɔɹˈtɛl/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [foː.ˈteɫ]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [fɔː.ˈtɛɫ]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [fɔɹ.ˈtɛɫ]

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: fore‧tell

foretell (third-person singular simple present foretells, present participle foretelling, simple past and past participle foretold)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.
   • Alexander Pope

     Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold.

   • C. Middleton

     Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.

• foresay
• forespeak

• foretellable
• foreteller

• foretale

• forecast
• foresee
• forewarn

• foretell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• foretell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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