horoscope
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EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French horoscope, from Medieval Latin horoscopus, from Ancient Greek ὡροσκόπος (hōroskópos), from ὥρα (hṓra, “any limited time”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”).
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NounEdit
horoscope (plural horoscopes)
- The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.
- An astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information.
- 1855, William Hurton, chapter XXIII, in The Doomed Ship; or, The Wreck of the Arctic Regions, London: Willoughby & Co., […], OCLC 29934103, page 103:
- "Ah, min hart! And what day was it?"
"How curious you are! Do you want to cast my horoscope?"
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TranslationsEdit
astrological forecast
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position of the planets and stars; diagram of such positions
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NounEdit
horoscope m (plural horoscopes)
- horoscope (all senses)