Definitions for Fortuneteller
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fortuneteller, fortune tellernoun

   a person who foretells your personal future

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1. fortunetellernoun

   a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.

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1. fortunetellernoun

   A person who professes to predict the future in return for money.

   "Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune" said the fortuneteller.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fortunetellernoun

   One who cheats common people by pretending to the knowledge of futurity.

   Etymology: fortune and teller.

   They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-fac’d villain,
   A thread-bare juggler, and a fortuneteller. William Shakespeare.

   A Welchman being at a sessions-house, and seeing the prisoners hold up hands at the bar, related to some of his acquaintance that the judges were good fortunetellers; for if they did but look upon their hand, they could certainly tell whether they should live or die. Francis Bacon, Apophthegms.

   Hast thou given credit to vain predictions of men, to dreams or fortunetellers, or gone about to know any secret things by lot? Brian Duppa, Rules for Devotion.

   There needs no more than impudence on one side, and a superstitious credulity on the other, to the setting up of a fortuneteller. Roger L'Estrange, Fable 94.

   Long ago a fortuneteller
   Exactly said what now befell her. Jonathan Swift.

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1. fortuneteller

   Fortune telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation. Historically, Pliny the Elder describes use of the crystal ball in the 1st century CE by soothsayers ("crystallum orbis", later written in Medieval Latin by scribes as orbuculum).Contemporary Western images of fortune telling grow out of folkloristic reception of Renaissance magic, specifically associated with Romani people. During the 19th and 20th century, methods of divination from non-Western cultures, such as the I Ching, were also adopted as methods of fortune telling in western popular culture. An example of divination or fortune telling as purely an item of pop culture, with little or no vestiges of belief in the occult, would be the Magic 8-Ball sold as a toy by Mattel, or Paul II, an octopus at the Sea Life Aquarium at Oberhausen used to predict the outcome of matches played by the Germany national football team.There is opposition to fortune telling in Christianity, Islam, Baháʼísm and Judaism based on scriptural prohibitions against divination. Terms for one who claims to see into the future include fortune teller, crystal-gazer, spaewife, seer, soothsayer, sibyl, clairvoyant, and prophet; related terms which might include this among other abilities are oracle, augur, and visionary. Fortune telling is dismissed by skeptics as being based on pseudoscience, magical thinking and superstition.

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1. fortuneteller

   A fortuneteller is a person who claims to have the ability to predict a person's future or offer insight into his or her life through various methods or techniques such as astrology, palmistry, numerology, tarot card reading, or spiritual consultation. Fortune telling is often associated with mystical or supernatural practices.

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How to pronounce Fortuneteller?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fortuneteller in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fortuneteller in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Fortuneteller
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Fortuneteller
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fortuneteller
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Fortuneteller
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuneteller
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