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Definition of foretell in English: foretellverbforetold fɔːˈtɛlfɔrˈtɛl [with object]Predict (the future or a future event) 预言，预示（未来之事） with clause a seer had foretold that the earl would assume the throne 占卜者预言伯爵将取得王位。 Example sentencesExamples - History hangs on thousands of fragile threads, and speculating on the unhappened past is almost as great a folly as trying to foretell the future.
- Often when a great person dies, a symbolic event which foretells the death of that person, occurs.
- A science which teaches to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretell future events, by their situation and different aspects.
- Jesus Christ, I say, can foresee and foretell the future.
- Though it wrestles with images, impressions, hopes and fears about the future, the technique does not claim to foretell the future.
- Who would have been brave enough to foretell football's future 50 years ago?
- For water-witching or foretelling the future, the diviner was often an integral, if under-appreciated member of the country village.
- The true prophet does not foretell an inevitable future, but warns of likely consequences should a present course of action continue.
- Then there were the people who believed that dreams foretold the future.
- In other words, they actually believe that children use cardboard toys to cast spells and foretell the future.
- I say this because I don't know of any other religion that has been able to foretell the future through prophets.
- In the Greek theatre Chorus speaks for the citizens, comments on events and foretells the future.
- Counterargument to this belief is that you absolutely have no way to know what will happen if you talk to someone new - this would be foretelling the future.
- Sometimes, your ability to foretell the future is uncanny.
- And like all successful prophets he would be heeded by the rich and the powerful, even if their own churches warned against foretelling the future.
- If people could decipher the signs that foretold events, the events would be predictable and humans could act wisely.
- My follow up to this story was that Joe could foretell his future back then.
- In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to foretell future events.
- I like to think of myself as a Product Evangelist, dreaming up wonderful new product features, foretelling the future of mobile telecoms, and preaching the glory that is our system to the assembled masses.
- The prophecies of Nostradamus are said to foretell events centuries in his future.
Synonyms predict, forecast, foresee, anticipate, envisage, envision, see, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, divine warn, forewarn archaic foreshow, croak Scottish archaic spae rare vaticinate, auspicate augur, presage, portend, foreshadow, indicate, signal, point to, add up to, be an omen of, be a warning of, be a harbinger of literary forebode, foretoken, betoken, harbinger rare prefigure
Derivativesnoun Someone has to become the foreteller of the future, and they start leading people toward it. Example sentencesExamples - Ultimately his priests achieved great influence owing to their reputation as foretellers of future events, who made known the will of the god.
- For example, for a fateful moment, such as the dispatch of a large shipment by sea, some exporters would require the advice of experts and outsiders, the counsel of foretellers, and the help of the Virgin Mary.
- Our research shows, however, that these foretellers of doom are being contradicted by actual practice.
- We are in the best prophetic traditions, not foretellers, but forthtellers: we would like to say what ought to be, and we speak in the name of tradition in this way.
RhymesAdele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, rebel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell Definition of foretell in US English: foretellverbfɔrˈtɛlfôrˈtel [with object]Predict (the future or a future event) 预言，预示（未来之事） with clause a seer had foretold that she would assume the throne 占卜者预言伯爵将取得王位。 as he foretold, thousands lost their lives Example sentencesExamples - The prophecies of Nostradamus are said to foretell events centuries in his future.
- History hangs on thousands of fragile threads, and speculating on the unhappened past is almost as great a folly as trying to foretell the future.
- In the Greek theatre Chorus speaks for the citizens, comments on events and foretells the future.
- I like to think of myself as a Product Evangelist, dreaming up wonderful new product features, foretelling the future of mobile telecoms, and preaching the glory that is our system to the assembled masses.
- The true prophet does not foretell an inevitable future, but warns of likely consequences should a present course of action continue.
- Often when a great person dies, a symbolic event which foretells the death of that person, occurs.
- Who would have been brave enough to foretell football's future 50 years ago?
- Sometimes, your ability to foretell the future is uncanny.
- If people could decipher the signs that foretold events, the events would be predictable and humans could act wisely.
- Then there were the people who believed that dreams foretold the future.
- My follow up to this story was that Joe could foretell his future back then.
- For water-witching or foretelling the future, the diviner was often an integral, if under-appreciated member of the country village.
- In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to foretell future events.
- A science which teaches to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretell future events, by their situation and different aspects.
- I say this because I don't know of any other religion that has been able to foretell the future through prophets.
- Jesus Christ, I say, can foresee and foretell the future.
- Counterargument to this belief is that you absolutely have no way to know what will happen if you talk to someone new - this would be foretelling the future.
- In other words, they actually believe that children use cardboard toys to cast spells and foretell the future.
- Though it wrestles with images, impressions, hopes and fears about the future, the technique does not claim to foretell the future.
- And like all successful prophets he would be heeded by the rich and the powerful, even if their own churches warned against foretelling the future.
Synonyms predict, forecast, foresee, anticipate, envisage, envision, see, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, divine augur, presage, portend, foreshadow, indicate, signal, point to, add up to, be an omen of, be a warning of, be a harbinger of
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