Foretale

Quick meaning: Foretale is a noun meaning An account or telling given as an introduction to a larger body of work; prologue; a prior or previous recollection or account of events.

Meaning

An account or telling given as an introduction to a larger body of work; prologue; a prior or previous recollection or account of events.

More Meanings

1. An account given in advance; prediction

Example Sentences

“Dam Joy told me that after Gormaak recited the Centauri tale of the Black and White, Fro Clear recalled an obscure foretale told to him by his grandam.

The final foretale is a story of magical transformation with comic undertones, explaining how the two great bulls, the Brown and the Whitehorned, came to be.

Filled with these foretales of gloom, I climbed back up the cliff with Yates to the Nissen hut to join him and Stagg for examination of the incoming Friday charts.

One can gain further insight by looking at what “foretales/ prophecies” are, and how they are made. It is interesting to consider the very terms themselves, and their evolution through time.

Word Forms

• foretales

Synonyms for foretale

Depending on context, synonyms include foretalk, foretelling.

Antonyms for foretale

Common opposites include aftertale.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forestory, foremessage, forebook, foretalk, forenote, prologue.

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