fortune-teller

Word family adjectivefortunatefortunedfortunelessadverbfortunatelynounfortunatenessfortune cookiefortune-tellerfortuneverbfortunize

Related topics: Occult

ˈfortune-ˌteller noun [countableC]

ROsomeone who uses cards or looks at people’s hands in order to tell them what is supposed to happen to them in the future 算命师，算命先生

—fortune telling noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

fortune-teller• I knew that as a fortune-teller and spirit medium, she was paid to console or cajole the dead.• Mrs Bay and the fortune-teller laughed and rolled their eyes with unfastened abandon.• The gypsies themselves were more colorful than the trees in autumn, but the fortune-teller was different.• What if the fortune-teller was destroying her hope and joy with that strange, harsh voice.• I thought of all the times the fortune-teller who had come to North Crittendon had told me the same thing.• The fortune-teller will probably agree with the problems, and then tell you how irrelevant they are.• The fortune-teller would hardly relay bad tidings, for who would be generous, learning of coming sorrows?

单词	fortune-teller
释义	fortune-teller Word family adjectivefortunatefortunedfortunelessadverbfortunatelynounfortunatenessfortune cookiefortune-tellerfortuneverbfortunize Related topics: Occult ˈfortune-ˌteller noun [countableC] ROsomeone who uses cards or looks at people’s hands in order to tell them what is supposed to happen to them in the future 算命师，算命先生 —fortune telling noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus fortune-teller• I knew that as a fortune-teller and spirit medium, she was paid to console or cajole the dead.• Mrs Bay and the fortune-teller laughed and rolled their eyes with unfastened abandon.• The gypsies themselves were more colorful than the trees in autumn, but the fortune-teller was different.• What if the fortune-teller was destroying her hope and joy with that strange, harsh voice.• I thought of all the times the fortune-teller who had come to North Crittendon had told me the same thing.• The fortune-teller will probably agree with the problems, and then tell you how irrelevant they are.• The fortune-teller would hardly relay bad tidings, for who would be generous, learning of coming sorrows?
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