1. A statement made about the future
   "The meteorologist's foretelling of a severe storm prompted many to prepare";
   - prediction, forecasting, prognostication
    
2. The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretence of prophecy) by supernatural means
   "The carnival fortune teller practised foretelling in her colourful tent";
   - divination, soothsaying, fortune telling

1. Make a prediction about; tell in advance
   "foretell the outcome of an election";
   - predict, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
    
2. Foreshadow or presage
   "The dark clouds foretold the coming storm";
   - announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald
    
3. Be a sign of something to come, esp. something important or bad
   "These signs foretell bad news";
   - bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken [archaic], foreshadow, augur, prefigure, forecast, predict, foretoken

Type of: bespeak, betoken [archaic], guess, hazard, indicate, point, pretend, prognostication, prophecy, signal, statement, tell, vaticination, venture

Encyclopedia: Foretelling