foretell : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: foretell	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for foretell
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foretell v foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald] make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" Synonym(s): predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" Synonym(s): bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foretold}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foretelling}.] To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. --C. Middleton. Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. i. To utter predictions. --Acts iii. 24.