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HOROSCOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horoscope mean? 

HOROSCOPE (noun)
  The noun HOROSCOPE has 2 senses:

1. a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planetsplay

2. a diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and placeplay

  Familiarity information: HOROSCOPE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOROSCOPE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("horoscope" is a kind of...):

forecasting; foretelling; prediction; prognostication (a statement made about the future)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("horoscope" is a kind of...):

diagram (a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts)


 Context examples 


It takes Saturn 29 years to revolve around the Sun and visit each house of your horoscope.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We only get two—or possibly three—visits from Saturn in a lifetime in each one of the houses of the horoscope.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You had a major, mainly friendly eclipse last month on December 25 in Capricorn, the sign opposite yours on the horoscope wheel.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The twelfth house is the last house of the horoscope before you loop around and enter the first house again, the one ruling identity, personality, appearance, and vitality.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you do the math, you will see that you can only get a maximum of three visits of Saturn to each house of the horoscope during a lifetime.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Still, even if you were old enough to date in 1996, the constellation of planets in Capricorn was different than what we have now, for horoscopes never replicate exactly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In a horoscope, it marks the end of a long cycle and the preparation of an exciting new one.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The opposite house on the horoscope wheel rules your other relatives—in-laws, stepparents, and stepsiblings, for example.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The house opposite your eleventh house of friendship on the horoscope wheel is your fifth house of truelove.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your family may wish you did not spend so much time at the office focusing on your career, but judging by your horoscope, you need to spend time on your professional life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"It's a long lane that has no turning." (English proverb)

"Boys will be boys and play boyish games." (Latin proverb)

"He who speaks about the future lies, even when he tells the truth." (Arabic proverb)

"If you own two houses, it's raining in one of them." (Corsican proverb)



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