"foreguess" meaning in English

See foreguess in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: foreguesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|foregessen}} Middle English foregessen, {{prefix|en|fore|guess}} fore- + guess Head templates: {{en-noun}} foreguess (plural foreguesses)
  1. A conjecture; an assumption.
    Sense id: en-foreguess-en-noun-ZWcRt-4k Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 25 18 16 19

Verb

Forms: foreguesses [present, singular, third-person], foreguessing [participle, present], foreguessed [participle, past], foreguessed [past]
Etymology: From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|foregessen}} Middle English foregessen, {{prefix|en|fore|guess}} fore- + guess Head templates: {{en-verb}} foreguess (third-person singular simple present foreguesses, present participle foreguessing, simple past and past participle foreguessed)
  1. (transitive) To guess beforehand. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-foreguess-en-verb-lqWwWDk1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with fore- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 25 18 16 19 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with fore-: 17 35 18 14 16
  2. (transitive) To forecast. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-foreguess-en-verb-yCqqK4x2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 25 18 16 19
  3. (transitive) To anticipate; expect. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-foreguess-en-verb-wX6an63- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 25 18 16 19
  4. (transitive) To conjecture; assume. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-foreguess-en-verb-~TM3t0WE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 25 18 16 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: foreguessing

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for foreguess meaning in English (4.6kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "foreguessing"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "foregessen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English foregessen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fore",
        "3": "guess"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + guess",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foreguesses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foreguessing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foreguessed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foreguessed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "foreguess (third-person singular simple present foreguesses, present participle foreguessing, simple past and past participle foreguessed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 18 16 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 35 18 14 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with fore-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge",
          "text": "The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To guess beforehand."
      ],
      "id": "en-foreguess-en-verb-lqWwWDk1",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To guess beforehand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 18 16 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To forecast."
      ],
      "id": "en-foreguess-en-verb-yCqqK4x2",
      "links": [
        [
          "forecast",
          "forecast"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To forecast."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 18 16 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To anticipate; expect."
      ],
      "id": "en-foreguess-en-verb-wX6an63-",
      "links": [
        [
          "anticipate",
          "anticipate"
        ],
        [
          "expect",
          "expect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To anticipate; expect."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 18 16 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons",
          "text": "[...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To conjecture; assume."
      ],
      "id": "en-foreguess-en-verb-~TM3t0WE",
      "links": [
        [
          "conjecture",
          "conjecture"
        ],
        [
          "assume",
          "assume"
        ],
        [
          "Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary",
          "w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
        ],
        [
          "G. & C. Merriam",
          "w:Merriam-Webster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To conjecture; assume."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foreguess"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "foregessen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English foregessen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fore",
        "3": "guess"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + guess",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foreguesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "foreguess (plural foreguesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 18 16 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, The Scottish review",
          "text": "[…] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conjecture; an assumption."
      ],
      "id": "en-foreguess-en-noun-ZWcRt-4k",
      "links": [
        [
          "conjecture",
          "conjecture"
        ],
        [
          "assumption",
          "assumption"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foreguess"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms prefixed with fore-",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "foreguessing"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "foregessen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English foregessen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fore",
        "3": "guess"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + guess",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foreguesses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foreguessing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foreguessed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foreguessed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "foreguess (third-person singular simple present foreguesses, present participle foreguessing, simple past and past participle foreguessed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge",
          "text": "The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To guess beforehand."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To guess beforehand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To forecast."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "forecast",
          "forecast"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To forecast."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To anticipate; expect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anticipate",
          "anticipate"
        ],
        [
          "expect",
          "expect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To anticipate; expect."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons",
          "text": "[...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To conjecture; assume."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conjecture",
          "conjecture"
        ],
        [
          "assume",
          "assume"
        ],
        [
          "Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary",
          "w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
        ],
        [
          "G. & C. Merriam",
          "w:Merriam-Webster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To conjecture; assume."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foreguess"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms prefixed with fore-",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "foregessen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English foregessen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fore",
        "3": "guess"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + guess",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foreguesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "foreguess (plural foreguesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, The Scottish review",
          "text": "[…] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conjecture; an assumption."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conjecture",
          "conjecture"
        ],
        [
          "assumption",
          "assumption"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foreguess"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.