bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen; “These signs bode bad news”
predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance; “Call the outcome of an election”
announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald
(verb) foreshadow or presage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
foretold
simple past tense and past participle of foretell
Source: Wiktionary
Fore*tell", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretold; p. pr. & vb. n. Foretelling.]
Definition: To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.
Syn.
– To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
Fore*tell", v. i.
Definition: To utter predictions. Acts iii. 24.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 May 2025
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
