Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who professes to predict future events.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who tells or reveals future events in the life of another; one who pretends to a knowledge of future events, and makes a practice of foretelling them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who professes to
predict thefuture in return formoney .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who foretells your personal future
- noun a person who foretells your personal future
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Examples
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"The way the laws are set up, they're making what they call a fortuneteller jump through more hoops than any other business, including adult businesses," she said.
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ALTEA: Well, you know, I hate being dubbed a fortuneteller or a teller of the future, because I am really not, but in the spirit world when they see, as they see in any given situation that they have are able to give us help and advice, not just about what's going on with us right now, but they can see things that are going to happen, opportunities.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Rosemary Altea Discusses `You Own the Power' - March 15, 2000 2000
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Asked how it was determined that she should be classified as a fortuneteller, Horbal replied: "Well, because that's what she is."
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Other characters often refer to him as a 'fortuneteller'.
IGN Complete 2009
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Voisin in the Rue de la Tannerie, well known as a fortuneteller to many ladies of the Court, who at a word from me will do your need. "
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Peter has been given money by Vilna Lutz to buy food, but he spends part of it on a fortuneteller instead.
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The fortuneteller tells Peter that "truth is forever changing."
Kate DiCamillo discusses The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2010
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"A soldier brave and true?" said the fortuneteller.
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The fortuneteller tells Peter that "truth is forever changing."
Kate DiCamillo discusses The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2010
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Secretly, she wants to change the world and maybe become a spy and fortuneteller, too.
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