🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

预测

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yùcè

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Prediction/prɪˈdɪk.ʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"专家对明年的经济走势做出了新的预测。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A statement about what someone thinks will happen in the future.

    "Meteorologists issued a weather prediction for heavy snowfall this weekend."
  2. 2

    The act of forecasting or predicting a future event based on current data, models, or intuition.

    "Economic predictions for the next quarter indicate steady market growth."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin praedictionem, a noun of action from the past participle stem of praedicere meaning 'to foretell, proclaim', composed of prae- ('before') and dicere ('to say'). It entered the English language in the late 14th century via Old French, retaining its core sense of stating or estimating beforehand what will happen in the future.

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