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fortune telling

fortune telling is the alternative form of fortune-telling.

Meaning of fortune-telling

Noun

fortune-telling (uncountable)

  1. The act or practice of predicting the future (especially for money), as by using a crystal ball, reading palms, reading tea leaves in a cup, etc.; prediction of future events, especially those of a personal nature.
    • Fortune-telling has been in all countries a gift of the sea-people.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 242

Questions about fortune telling

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

Words near fortune telling in the dictionary

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

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