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fortune-teller

fortune-teller is the alternative form of fortune teller.

Meaning of fortune teller

Noun

fortune teller (plural fortune tellers)

  1. 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 fortune teller.
  2. A cootie catcher.
    • The usual exchange between English children is as follows: A: Who do you love? (referring to one of the names on the fortune-teller) B: Simon. A: S-I-M-O-N (alternately opens and shuts the device as he or she says each letter).2006, Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, Michael Buckby, Games for Language Learning, page 137

Forms of fortune-teller

pluralfortune-tellers

Questions about fortune-teller

What is fortune-teller the alternative form of?
Fortune-teller is the alternative form of fortune teller.

Words near fortune-teller in the dictionary

  1. fortune-hunter
  2. fortune-hunters
  3. fortune-seeker
  4. fortune-seekers
  5. fortune-tell
  6. fortune-teller
  7. fortune-tellers
  8. fortune-telling
  9. fortune-tells
  10. fortune-told
  11. fortuned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fortune-teller (page history and authors); fortune teller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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