Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who professes to predict future events.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. one who professes to tell future events in the life of another.
- n. a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who foretells your personal future
- n. a person who foretells your personal future
Examples
“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.”
“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
“Asked how it was determined that she should be classified as a fortuneteller, Horbal replied: "Well, because that's what she is.”
“Other characters often refer to him as a 'fortuneteller'.”
“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. ”
“Secretly, she wants to change the world and maybe become a spy and fortuneteller, too.”
“Peter has been given money by Vilna Lutz to buy food, but he spends part of it on a fortuneteller instead.”
“The fortuneteller tells Peter that "truth is forever changing.”
Kate DiCamillo discusses The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“A soldier brave and true?" said the fortuneteller.”
“That day in the market square, in the midst of the entirely unremarkable and absolutely ordinary stalls of the fishmongers and cloth merchants and bakers and silversmiths, there had appeared, without warning or fanfare, the red tent of a fortuneteller.”
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Extrasensory Individuals
Those who connect with spirits, predict the future, and read our minds.
psychic, clairvoyant, esper, mystic, mentalist, spiritualist, spiritist, rappist, medium, channeler, agent, vessel and 57 more...
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