fortune-teller

Or for·tune·tell·er

[fawr-chuhn-tel-er]

noun

1. a person who claims the ability to predict the future.

fortune-teller

noun

1. a person who makes predictions about the future as by looking into a crystal ball, reading palms, etc

Other Word Forms

• fortune-telling adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fortune-teller¹

First recorded in 1580–90; fortune + teller ( def. )

Example Sentences

Two other defendants - self-styled independent journalist Natacha Rey and internet fortune-teller Amandine Roy – were already found guilty of slander last year for claiming that France's first lady had never existed, and that her brother had changed gender and started using her name.

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Two of them - self-styled independent journalist Natacha Rey and internet fortune-teller Amandine Roy – were found guilty of slander last year for claiming that France's first lady had never existed, and that her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux had changed gender and started using her name.

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The pair - Roy an internet fortune-teller, Rey a self-styled independent journalist - discussed at length in a YouTube video the baseless rumour that Brigitte Macron had at some point undergone gender reassignment.

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“I think what foreigners see isn’t the reality,” said Nattipong Boonpuang, a 32-year-old fortune-teller and model.

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“And yet, she added, what is the difference? Right now you are a child holding hands with a fortune-teller. All the rest is hypothesis and dream.”

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