Synonyms of the word

auspicate

• v. To foreshow; to foretoken.
• v. To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of…
• adj. Auspicious.

augur

• n. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial…
• n. (Ancient Rome) An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.
• v. To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events.
• v. To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.

begin

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
• v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation.
• v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
• n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

bespeak

• v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
• v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
• v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
• v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
• v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
• n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

betoken

• v. To signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
• v. To foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.

bode

• v. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
• v. (intransitive) To foreshow something; to augur.
• n. An omen; a foreshadowing.
• n. (obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.
• n. A messenger; a herald.
• n. A stop; a halting; delay.
• v. simple past tense of bide.

commence

• v. (intransitive) To begin, start.
• v. (transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.
• v. (Britain, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

forecast

• v. To estimate how something will be in the future.
• v. (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
• n. An estimation of a future condition.
• n. A prediction of the weather.

foreshadow

• v. (transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance.

foretell

• v. To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

indicate

• v. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
• v. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
• v. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
• v. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

omen

• n. Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future;…
• n. prophetic significance.
• v. To be an omen of.
• v. To divine or predict from omens.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

portend

• v. (transitive) To serve as a warning or omen.
• v. (transitive) To signify; to denote.

predict

• v. (transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge…
• v. (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
• v. (intransitive) To make predictions.
• v. (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
• n. (obsolete) A prediction.

prefigure

• v. To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand (often used in a Biblical context).
• v. To predict or foresee.
• n. That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.

presage

• n. A warning of a future event; an omen.
• n. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
• v. (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
• v. (intransitive) To make a prediction.
• v. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

prognosticate

• v. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
• v. (transitive) To presage, betoken.

signal

• n. A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted…
• n. An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
• n. (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electrical or electromagnetic action, normally a voltage…
• n. A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
• n. Useful information, as opposed to noise.
• n. (computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate.
• adj. Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.