Phrase guide

fortune teller

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːt͡ʃuːn ˌtɛlə/
  • General-American: /ˈfoɹt͡ʃən ˌtɛlɚ/
  • General-American: /ˈfoɹt͡ʃun ˌtɛlɚ/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A person who professes to predict the future in return for money.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • "Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune," said the fortune teller.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A cootie catcher.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a person who foretells your personal future

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fortuneteller

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer

Narrower terms: palmist, palmister, chiromancer, sibyl

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

155 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: fortuinverteller — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Afrikaans: toekomsverteller — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Albanian: falltar — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Albanian: falltare — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Albanian: fallxhor — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Albanian: fallxhore — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Arabic: عَرَّاف (ʕarrāf) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Arabic: عَرَّافَة (ʕarrāfa) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Arabic: كَاهِن (kāhin) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Arabic: كَاهِنَة (kāhina) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Armenian: գուշակ (gušak) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Azerbaijani: falçı — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Bashkir: күрәҙә (kürəźə) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Bashkir: күрәҙәсе (kürəźəse) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Belarusian: варажбі́т (varažbít) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Belarusian: варажбі́тка (varažbítka) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Bulgarian: вра́чка (vráčka) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Bulgarian: врач (vrač) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Catalan: endeví — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Catalan: endevina — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Chinese Mandarin: 算命家 (suànmìngjiā) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Chinese Mandarin: 擇日館 /择日馆 (zháirìguǎn) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Czech: věštec — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Czech: věštkyně — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Danish: spåmand — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Danish: spåkone — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Danish: spåkvinde — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Dutch: wichelaar — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Dutch: wichelaarster — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Dutch: waarzegger — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Dutch: waarzegster — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Esperanto: aŭguradisto — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Esperanto: aŭguradistino — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Esperanto: aŭguristo — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Esperanto: divenisto — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Estonian: ennustaja — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Finnish: ennustaja — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Finnish: povari — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • French: diseur de bonne aventure — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • French: diseuse de bonne aventure — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • West-Frisian: wikker — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Galician: vidente — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Galician: adiviño — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Galician: carteiro — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Georgian: მკითხავი (mḳitxavi) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • German: Wahrsager — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • German: Wahrsagerin — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Greek: χαρτομάντης (chartomántis) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Greek: χαρτομάντισσα (chartomántissa) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Greek: μάντης (mántis) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Greek: μάντισσα (mántissa) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Greek: χειρομάντισσα (cheiromántissa) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Greek: χειρομάντης (cheiromántis) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Hebrew: מַגִּיד עֲתִידוֹת (magíd 'atidót) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Hebrew: מַגֶּדֶת עֲתִידוֹת (magédet 'atidót) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Hindi: भविष्यवक्ता (bhaviṣyavaktā) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Hindi: ज्योतिषी (jyotiṣī) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Hungarian: jós — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Hungarian: jósnő — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Hungarian: jövendőmondó — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Icelandic: spámaður — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Icelandic: spákona — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Irish: bean feasa — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Italian: indovina — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Italian: indovino — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Italian: divinatore — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Italian: divinatrice — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Italian: vate — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Japanese: 占い師 (uranaishi) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Kazakh: жауырыншы (jauyrynşy) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Kazakh: балгер (balger) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Kikuyu: mũragũri — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Korean: 점쟁이 (jeomjaeng'i) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Latin: hariolus — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Latin: hariola — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Latvian: pareģis — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Latvian: pareģe — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Lithuanian: pranašas — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Lithuanian: pranašautojas — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Macedonian: га́тачка (gátačka) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Macedonian: га́тач (gátač) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Macedonian: гаталец (gatalec) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Macedonian: гаталка (gatalka) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Norman: dîs'resse — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Norman: d'vîn — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spåmann — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spåkone — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Iranian Persian: پیشْگو (pišgu) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Iranian Persian: فالْگیر (fâlgir) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Iranian Persian: فالْبین (fâlbin) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Plautdietsch: Woasaja — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: wróżbiarz — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: wróżbiarka — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: wróż — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: wróżka — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: wróżbita — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: wróżbitka — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: jasnowidz — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: jasnowidzka — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: jasnowidzący — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Polish: jasnowidząca — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Portuguese: cartomante — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Portuguese: adivinho — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Romanian: ghicitor — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Romanian: ghicitoare — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Russian: гада́лка (gadálka) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Russian: прорица́тель (proricátelʹ) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Russian: прорица́тельница (proricátelʹnica) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Russian: предсказа́тель (predskazátelʹ) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Russian: предсказа́тельница (predskazátelʹnica) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Russian: вещу́н (veščún) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Russian: вещу́нья (veščúnʹja) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Sanskrit: ज्ञानिन् (jñānin) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Scots: spaeman — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Scots: weirdman — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Scots: spaewife — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Scots: weirdwife — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Serbo-Croatian: гатар — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Serbo-Croatian: гатара — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Serbo-Croatian: врач — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Serbo-Croatian: врачара — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Serbo-Croatian: gatar — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Serbo-Croatian: gatara — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Serbo-Croatian: vrač — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Serbo-Croatian: vračara — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Slovak: veštec — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Slovak: veštkyňa — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Slovene: vedeževalec — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Slovene: vedelka — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Spanish: adivino — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Spanish: adivina — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Spanish: pitoniso — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Spanish: agorero — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Spanish: vaticinador — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Spanish: vate — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Swedish: spåman — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Swedish: spåkvinna — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Tajik: фолбин (folbin) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Tatar: күрәзә (küräzä) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Tatar: күрәзәче (küräzäçe) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Tatar: багучы (bağuçı) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Tocharian B: pälkaucäkka — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Turkish: falcı — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Turkish: kâhin — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Ottoman Turkish: فالجی (falcı) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Ukrainian: воро́жка (voróžka) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Ukrainian: ворожби́тка (vorožbýtka) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Ukrainian: ворожби́т (vorožbýt) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Ukrainian: ворожі́й (vorožíj) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Urdu: کَہَنے والا (kahane vālā) — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Uzbek: folbin — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Vietnamese: thầy bói — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Volapük: büosagan — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Volapük: hibüosagan — person who professes to predict the future in return for money
  • Volapük: jibüosagan — person who professes to predict the future in return for money