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fortune-teller
[ fawr-chuhn-tel-er ]
noun
- a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
fortune-teller
noun
- a person who makes predictions about the future as by looking into a crystal ball, reading palms, etc
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Derived Forms
- ˈfortune-ˌtelling, adjectivenoun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fortune-teller1
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Example Sentences
Never has the life of a happy-endings-masseuse turned fortune teller seemed more dangerous.
It seems as though every expert, government agency, and fortune-teller has a different guess.
Meg, the fortune-teller, remained where he had left her several moments watching him with a strange, catlike intentness.
Upon this scene broke the bent figure of the old fortune-teller, with Nita by her side.
If I were to stop that old fortune teller and his companions my incognito would run a risk of being discovered.
There is a fortune-teller in Westminster who is making little less.
From time to time they had urged him to visit the fortune-teller, and one idle day he concluded to make the experiment.
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