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fortunetelling

fortunetelling 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 fortunetelling

What is fortunetelling the alternative form of?
Fortunetelling is the alternative form of fortune-telling.

Words near fortunetelling in the dictionary

  1. fortuned
  2. fortuneless
  3. fortunes
  4. fortuneteller
  5. fortunetellers
  6. fortunetelling
  7. Fortunian
  8. fortuning
  9. fortunings
  10. fortunise
  11. fortunised

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