présage

v. foreshadow, act as an omen, portend; be a sign of -; feel in advance, sense ahead of time

n. omen, portent, sign; intuitive feeling about future events; caution, warning, admonition

Noun
1. a foreboding about what is about to happen
(hypernym) foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding
2. a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
(synonym) omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy
(hypernym) augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
(hyponym) auspice
(derivation) bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
Verb
1. indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
(synonym) bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
(hypernym) bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
(hyponym) threaten
(derivation) omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy

n. presage, omen, portent, augury, forerunner, prognostic

v. presage, predict, foretell; augur, foresee, omen, prognosticate; divine, forebode

(v. t.)
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
  

(v. t.)
To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
  

(v. t.)
Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
  

(v. t.)
Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
  

(v. i.)
To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
  

Synonyms and related words:
actuarial prediction, adumbrate, apocalypse, apprehensiveness, augur, augury, auspicate, bespeak, betoken, bode, boding, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, clairvoyance, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, forefeeling, foreknowing, foreknowledge, forerun, foresee, foreseeability, foreshadow, foreshow, foreshowing, foresight, foretell, foretelling, foretoken, forewisdom, fortune-tell, guess, guesswork, harbinger, hariolate, have a hunch, have an intimation, herald, hunch, improbability, indicate, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, misgiving, omen, portend, portent, preapprehension, precognition, predict, prediction, prefiguration, prefigure, prefigurement, prefiguring, preindicate, premonition, prenotion, presagement, presaging, prescience, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticate, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesy, prophesying, prospectus, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, shadow, shadow forth, soothsay, speculate, speculation, statistical prediction, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate, vaticination