fortune-teller

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Occultfortune-tellerˈfortune-ˌteller noun [countable] 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 —fortune telling noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusfortune-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 From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Occultfortune-tellerˈfortune-ˌteller noun [countable] 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 —fortune telling noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusfortune-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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