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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praedictiō, praedictiōnis; equivalent to predict + -ion. Compare the Germanic equivalents forespeaking, foretale, foretelling.
Pronunciation
Noun
prediction (plural predictions)
- A statement of what will happen in the future.
- Synonyms: forecast, foretale, foretelling, prevision, prognosis, prognostication
- make predictions about something
- correct prediction
- offer up a prediction
- incorrect prediction
- the prediction came true
- (statistics) A probability estimation based on statistical methods.
Derived terms
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Translations
a statement about the future
- Arabic: تَنَبُّؤ m (tanabbuʔ)
- Armenian: գուշակություն (hy) (gušakutʻyun), կանխատեսում (hy) (kanxatesum)
- Belarusian: прадказа́нне n (pradkazánnje), прагно́з m (prahnóz)
- Bengali: ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী (bn) (bhobiśśodbani)
- Bulgarian: предсказа́ние (bg) n (predskazánie), предви́ждане (bg) n (predvíždane)
- Catalan: predicció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 預言／预言 (zh) (yùyán), 預估／预估 (zh) (yùgū), 預測／预测 (zh) (yùcè)
- Czech: předpověď (cs) f
- Danish: forudsigelse c
- Dutch: voorspelling (nl) f
- Esperanto: prognozo
- Estonian: ennustus
- Finnish: ennustus (fi), ennuste (fi), prognoosi (fi)
- French: prédiction (fr) f
- Georgian: წინასწარმეტყველება (c̣inasc̣armeṭq̇veleba)
- German: Voraussage (de) f, Vorhersage (de) f, Prophezeiung (de) f
- Greek: πρόβλεψη (el) f (próvlepsi), πρόγνωση (el) f (prógnosi)
- Hebrew: תַּחֲזִית (he) f (takhazít)
- Hindi: प्रागुक्ति (hi) f (prāgukti), भविष्यवाणी f (bhaviṣyavāṇī)
- Hungarian: jóslat (hu)
- Indonesian: prediksi (id)
- Irish: réamhaisnéis f, tairngreacht f
- Italian: predizione (it), previsione (it)
- Japanese: 予言 (ja) (よげん, yogen), 予測 (ja) (よそく, yosoku)
- Kazakh: сәуегейлік (säuegeilık)
- Korean: 예언(豫言) (ko) (yeeon), 예측(豫測) (ko) (yecheuk)
- Latin: praedictum (la) n, vāticinium n, fatum n
- Macedonian: предвидување n (predviduvanje)
- Malay: ramalan (ms)
- Malayalam: പ്രവചനം (ml) (pravacanaṁ)
- Norman: prédiction f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: spådom m
- Nynorsk: spådom m
- Pashto: مخوېينه f (mëxweyëna)
- Persian: پیشگویی (fa) (pišguyi)
- Polish: przepowiednia (pl) f, prognoza (pl) f, przewidywanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: predição (pt) f, previsão (pt) f
- Romanian: predicție (ro) f, previziune (ro) f, prevestire (ro) f
- Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прогно́з (ru) m (prognóz), предви́дение (ru) n (predvídenije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: предсказање n
- Roman: predskazanje (sh) n
- Slovak: predpoveď f
- Slovene: napoved f
- Spanish: predicción (es) f
- Swahili: utabiri (sw)
- Swedish: förutsägelse (sv) c, förutsago c (obsolete, in older litt.), spådom (sv) c, prognos (sv) c, prediktion (sv) c (scientific)
- Tagalog: hulaysay
- Tajik: пешгӯӣ (pešgüyī)
- Ukrainian: передба́чення (uk) n (peredbáčennja), прогно́з (uk) m (prohnóz)
- Uzbek: bashorat (uz)
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