Foretell

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fore=tell

CIDE DICTIONARY

Foretell, v. t. 

 To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.  [1913 Webster]
"Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold."  [1913 Webster]
"Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character."

Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.

Foretell, v. i. 

 To utter predictions.  Acts iii. 24.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Foretell, v.tr. (past and past part. -told)
1 tell of (an event etc.) before it takes place; predict, prophesy.
2 presage; be a precursor of.

Derivative

foreteller n.

THESAURUS

Foretell

adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess, hariolate, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan, plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, project, promise, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reveal, soothsay, speculate, tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate, warn

ROGET THESAURUS

Foretell

Prediction

VB predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, advise, forewarn, presage, augur, bode, abode, forebode, foretoken, betoken, prefigure, preshow, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to, usher in, herald, premise, announce, lower, hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope, bid fair, promise, lead one to expect, be the precursor, extrapolate, project.