Meanings
nounforeteller (plural foretellers)
plural foretellers
- Someone who foretells.
But Powers, a former staff writer at The Washington Post who has written extensively on media and technology, is not simply an earnest foreteller of doom.
2010 July 16, Laurie Winer, "Born to Check Mail" (book review of Hamlet's Blackberry by William Powers), New York Times (retrieved 24 Nov 2011)Synonyms: prognosticator, prophet, seer, oracle
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone who foretells.
Origin
Translations
German Wahrsager, Wahrsagerin
- Wahrsagersomeone who foretells
- Wahrsagerinsomeone who foretells
- Hellsehersomeone who foretells
- Hellseherinsomeone who foretells
Persian پیشگو
- پیشگو (pišgu)someone who foretells
Polish wróżbiarz, wróżbita
- wróżbiarzsomeone who foretells
- wróżbitasomeone who foretells
- wróżsomeone who foretells
Swahili mbashiri
- mbashirisomeone who foretells
Turkish kâhin, medyum
- kâhinsomeone who foretells
- medyumsomeone who foretells
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APA
foreteller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreteller
MLA
“foreteller.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreteller. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foreteller,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreteller.
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