Meaning & use

horoscope

noun·Academic

A prediction of a person's future based on the position of stars and planets at their birth.

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She reads her horoscope every morning before checking the news.

The magazine's horoscope section predicted a lucky week for Leos.

A note on using this word

"Horoscope" relates to astrology, a belief system, not to astronomy, the scientific study of celestial objects.

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