horoscope

Borrowed from Middle French horoscope, from Medieval Latin horoscopus, from Ancient Greek ὡροσκόπος (hōroskópos), from ὥρα (hṓra, “any limited time”) +‎ σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒ.ɹə.skəʊp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔ.ɹəˌskoʊp/
• Hyphenation: ho‧ro‧scope
• Rhymes: -əʊp

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horoscope (plural horoscopes)

1. The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.
2. An astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 90:

     We must talk of the force of circumstances, of imperative necessity, and find fault with the cruel horoscope which ordained such a fate.

   • 1855, William Hurton, chapter XXIII, in The Doomed Ship; or, The Wreck of the Arctic Regions, London: Willoughby & Co., […], →OCLC, page 103:

     "Ah, min hart! And what day was it?"
     "How curious you are! Do you want to cast my horoscope?"

• rashifal

• horoscopic

• astrology
• pseudoscience

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɔs.kɔp/

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horoscope m (plural horoscopes)

1. horoscope (all senses)

• “horoscope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.