forecast

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfoɻkɑst/

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Verb

forecast (third-person singular simple present forecasts, present participle forecasting, simple past and past participle forecast or forecasted)

1. To estimate how something will be in the future.

   to forecast the weather

   to forecast a storm

2. (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
   • Milton

     If it happen as I did forecast.

Translations

estimate future conditions

• Afrikaans: voorspel
• Arabic: يتنبئ (ar)
• Dutch: voorspellen (nl)
• Finnish: ennustaa (fi), ennakoida (fi)
• French: prévoir (fr)
• German: vorhersagen (de), prognostizieren (de)
• Indonesian: ramal (id), meramal (id), mengira (id), memperkirakan (id)
• Italian: prevedere (it)

• Japanese: 予想する (よそうする, yosō-suru)
• Norwegian: forutsi (no), predikere (no)
• Portuguese: prever (pt)
• Russian: предсказывать (ru) (pr'edskázyvat') impf., предсказать (ru) (pr'edskazát') pf.; прогнозировать (ru) (prognozírovat') impf., спрогнозировать (ru) (sprognozírovat') pf.
• Slovene: napovedati (sl)
• Spanish: predecir. pronosticar
• Swedish: förutsäga (sv), förutse (sv)

Noun

forecast (plural forecasts)

1. An estimation of a future condition.
2. A prediction of the weather.

   • What's the forecast for tomorrow?

Translations

estimation

• Afrikaans: voorspelling
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: calendari (ca) m
• Chinese: trad. 預報, simpl. 预报 (pinyin: yùbào), trad. 預測, simpl. 预测 (pinyin: yùcè)
• Czech: předpověď (cs) f
• Dutch: voorspelling (nl) f
• Esperanto: prognozo (eo)
• Finnish: ennuste, ennakkoarvio
• French: prévision (fr) f

• German: Schätzung (de) f
• Japanese: 予想 (ja) (yosō), 予報 (ja) (yohō)
• Persian: پیشبینی (fa)
• Portuguese: previsão (pt) f
• Russian: предсказание (ru) (pr'edskazánije) n, прогноз (ru) (prognóz) m
• Slovene: napoved (sl) f
• Spanish: pronóstico (es) m, previsión (es) f
• Swedish: förhandsberäkning (sv) c, utsikt (sv) c

weather prediction

• Afrikaans: weervoorspelling
• Arabic: توقعات طقس (ar) (tawaqu3aat Taqs) f pl
• Catalan: calendari (ca) m
• Chinese: trad. 預報, simpl. 预报 (pinyin: yùbào), trad. 天氣預報, simpl. 天气预报 (pinyin: tiānqì yùbào)
• Czech: předpověď (cs) f
• Dutch: weersvoorspelling (nl) f
• Esperanto: veterprognozo (eo)
• Finnish: sääennuste (fi)

• French: prévision (fr) f, prévision météorologique (fr) f, prévision météo (fr) f
• German: Wettervorhersage (de) f, Vorhersage (de) f
• Japanese: 天気予報 (ja) (tenki yohō)
• Portuguese: previsão (pt) f
• Russian: прогноз (ru) (prognóz) m, прогноз погоды (ru) (prognóz pogódy) m
• Slovene: napoved (sl) f
• Spanish: pronóstico del tiempo (es) m
• Swedish: väderprognos (sv) c, prognos (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ramalan
• Italian: previsione

External links

• forecast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• forecast in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911