prediction

See also: prédiction

English

Alternative forms

• prædiction (archaic)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praedictiō, praedictiōnis; equivalent to predict +‎ -ion. Compare the Germanic equivalents forespeaking, foretale, foretelling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
• Hyphenation: pre‧dic‧tion

Noun

prediction (plural predictions)

1. 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

2. (statistics) A probability estimation based on statistical methods.

Derived terms

• prediction market
• Wiener-Kolmogorov prediction

 

Related terms

• predict

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)
• Hawaiian: wānana
• 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

• Old English: forecwide
• 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 (pešgüi)
• Ukrainian: передба́чення (uk) n (peredbáčennja), прогно́з (uk) m (prohnóz)
• Uzbek: bashorat (uz)