'Fortune teller' definitions:

Definition of 'fortune teller'

From: WordNet
noun
A person who foretells your personal future [syn: fortuneteller, fortune teller]

Definition of 'Fortune teller'

From: GCIDE
  • Fortune \For"tune\ (f[^o]r"t[-u]n; 135), n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. Fortuitous.]
  • 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life. [1913 Webster]
  • 'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune. [1913 Webster]
  • You, who men's fortunes in their faces read. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort. [1913 Webster]
  • Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
  • Syn: Chance; accident; luck; fate. [1913 Webster]
  • Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it. --Crashaw.
  • Fortune hunter, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage.
  • Fortune teller, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another.
  • Fortune telling, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'fortune teller'

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