English to French Meaning of foretell - prédire

Foretell :

prédire

verb

calculer, énumérer, prédire, compter, considérer, prophétiser, prévoir, augure, présager, dire la bonne aventure, pronostiquer, menacer

Foretell :: prédireForetelling :: prévisionForetells :: hada

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Definitions of foretell in English

Verb(1) foreshadow or presage(2) make a prediction about; tell in advance(3) indicate, as with a sign or an omen

Examples of foretell in English

(1) The true prophet does not foretell an inevitable future, but warns of likely consequences should a present course of action continue.(2) Though it wrestles with images, impressions, hopes and fears about the future, the technique does not claim to foretell the future.(3) Sometimes, your ability to foretell the future is uncanny.(4) In other words, they actually believe that children use cardboard toys to cast spells and foretell the future.(5) Who would have been brave enough to foretell football's future 50 years ago?(6) In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to foretell future events.(7) 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.(8) The prophecies of Nostradamus are said to foretell events centuries in his future.(9) I say this because I don't know of any other religion that has been able to foretell the future through prophets.(10) Jesus Christ, I say, can foresee and foretell the future.(11) 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.(12) My follow up to this story was that Joe could foretell his future back then.(13) 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.(14) For water-witching or foretelling the future, the diviner was often an integral, if under-appreciated member of the country village.(15) Often when a great person dies, a symbolic event which foretells the death of that person, occurs.(16) Someone has to become the foreteller of the future, and they start leading people toward it.

(1) rain forest ::

forêt tropicale

(2) in the forest ::

dans la foret

(3) tropical forest ::

forêt tropicale

(4) forest fires ::

feux de forêt

(5) deep forest ::

forêt profonde

(6) black forest ::

forêt Noire

(7) deciduous forest ::

forêt à feuilles caduques

(8) through the forest ::

à travers la forêt

(9) thick forest ::

une forêt dense

(10) forest fire ::

feu de forêt

Synonyms

Verb

1. predict ::

prédire

2. indicate ::

indiquer

3. prognosticate ::

pronostiquer

4. announce ::

annoncer

Different Forms

foretell, foretelling, foretells

English to French Dictionary: foretell

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