foreteller

English

Etymology

From foretell +‎ -er.

Noun

foreteller (plural foretellers)

1. Someone who foretells.
   • 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):

     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.

Synonyms

• prognosticator, prophet, seer
• See Thesaurus:oracle

Translations

someone who foretells

• German: Wahrsager (de) m, Wahrsagerin (de) f, Hellseher (de) m, Hellseherin (de) f
• Persian: پیشگو (fa) (pišgu)
• Polish: wróżbiarz (pl) m, wróżbita (pl) m, wróż (pl) m
• Swahili: mbashiri (sw)
• Turkish: kâhin (tr), medyum (tr)