Noun
crystal ball (plural crystal balls)
- A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future.
The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future.
- (by extension) A way of seeing into the future.
If her past is a crystal ball to her future, she will perhaps never be rich, even though she is a kind, hard-working person.
- One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes
Translations
globe used to foretell the future
- Arabic: كُرَة بِلَّوْرِيَّة f (kura(t) billawriyya)
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- Catalan: bola de vidre
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 水晶球 (zh) (shuǐjīngqiú)
- Czech: křišťálová koule, věštecká koule
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: glazen bol
- Esperanto: kristalglobo
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kristallipallo (fi)
- French: boule de cristal (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Glaskugel (de) f, Kristallkugel (de) f
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: כַּדּוּר בְּדֹלַח (he) m (kaddúr bdólaḥ)
- Italian: sfera di cristallo, palla di cristallo
- Japanese: 水晶玉 (すいしょうだま, suishōdama)
- Korean: 수정 구슬 (sujeong guseul)
- Latin: pila crystallīna f
- Lithuanian: krištolinis rutulys
- Norwegian: spådomskule m or f, krystallkule m or f
- Polish: szklana kula f
- Portuguese: bola de cristal
- Romanian: glob de cristal n
- Russian: маги́ческий криста́лл m (magíčeskij kristáll), хруста́льный шар m (xrustálʹnyj šar)
- Serbo-Croatian: kristalna kugla
- Spanish: bola de cristal
- Swedish: kristallkula c
- Tagalog: banawan
- Turkish: sihirli küre, kristal küre
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way of seeing into the future