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fortune-telling en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act or practice of predicting the future (especially for money), as by using a crystal ball, reading palms, reading tea leaves in a cup, etc.; prediction of future events, especially those of a personal nature.
   • Fortune-telling has been in all countries a gift of the sea-people. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 242:

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Relateds

palmistry (connected with fortunetelling) · ventriloquism (connected with fortunetelling) · crystallomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · Chinese geomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · rhabdomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · ceromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · runecasting (connected with fortunetelling) · onomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · lithomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · alectryomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · geomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · cheiromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · tasseography (connected with fortunetelling) · necromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · chronomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · crystal ball (connected with fortunetelling) · gastromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · paper fortune teller (connected with fortunetelling) · augury (connected with fortunetelling) · runic divination (connected with fortunetelling) · horary astrology (connected with fortunetelling) · oneiromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · kau cim (connected with fortunetelling) · astroscopy (connected with fortunetelling) · bibliomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · ouija board (connected with fortunetelling) · planchette (connected with fortunetelling) · astrology (connected with fortunetelling) · extispicy (connected with fortunetelling) · cartomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · clairvoyance (connected with fortunetelling) · I Ching (connected with fortunetelling) · omoplatoscopy (connected with fortunetelling) · pendulum reading (connected with fortunetelling) · astromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · hydromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · numerology (connected with fortunetelling) · metoposcopy (connected with fortunetelling) · tasseomancy (connected with fortunetelling) · taromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · pyromancy (connected with fortunetelling) · haruspicy (connected with fortunetelling) · feng shui (connected with fortunetelling) · geloscopy (connected with fortunetelling) · scrying (connected with fortunetelling) · face reading (connected with fortunetelling) · fortune cookie (connected with fortunetelling) · cold reading (connected with fortunetelling)

Translations (33)

my ဗေဒင် (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · fi ennustaminen (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ota فال (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ee afakaka (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · et ennustamine (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ru гада́ние (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · sv spådom (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · vo büosagam (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ru ворожба́ (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · pt adivinhação (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · cy darogan (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ha haɗɗī̀ (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ka მკითხაობა (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · la hariolatio (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · vo büosag (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · hu jövendőmondás (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ar عَرَافَة (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · pl wróżbiarstwo (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · hu jóslás (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · cmn 占卜 (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · te సోదె (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ja 占い (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · pl wróżenie (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · tr fal (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · de Wahrsagen (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · az fal (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · fr bonne aventure (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · eo aŭgurado (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · vi bói (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · de Wahrsagerei (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · vi bói toán (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · it divinazione (fortunetelling, predicting one's future) · ro prezicere (fortunetelling, predicting one's future)