noun
Meaning 1
prognostication; presage
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
forebode
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/fɔːˈbəʊd/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -əʊd
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CMU ARPABET: F AO0 R B OW1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
make a prediction about; tell in advance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Call the outcome of an election
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, anticipate, promise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: guess, venture, pretend, hazard
Narrower terms: read, second-guess, outguess, augur, bet, wager, forecast, calculate, prophesy, vaticinate
History
Etymology
From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: вещая (veštaja) — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Chinese Mandarin: 預示 /预示 (yùshì) — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- German: voraussehen — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- German: ahnen — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Ancient Greek: μαντεύομαι (manteúomai) — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Italian: presagire — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Italian: vaticinare — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Latin: praesāgīo — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Latin: portendō — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Latin: polliceor — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Norwegian: varsle — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Russian: предвеща́ть (predveščátʹ) — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Spanish: presagiar — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Swedish: förebåda — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Swedish: varsla — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
- Swedish: varsko — to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)