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prognostications

prognostications is the plural of prognostication.

Meaning of prognostication

Noun

prognostication (countable and uncountable, plural prognostications)

  1. A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
    • She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.1837, The Dublin University Magazine
  2. (dated) An omen.
    • But if there appears only one single flame, they call it Helena, and look upon it as a prognostication of certain ruin to those that are out at Sea.1694, François-Antoine Pomey, translated by Andrew Tooke, The Pantheon

Questions about prognostications

What is prognostications the plural of?
Prognostications is the plural of prognostication.

Words near prognostications in the dictionary

  1. prognosticate
  2. prognosticated
  3. prognosticates
  4. prognosticating
  5. prognostication
  6. prognostications
  7. prognosticative
  8. prognosticator
  9. prognosticators
  10. prognosticatory
  11. prognostick

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