crystal ball

English

Noun

"The Crystal Ball" by John William Waterhouse: scrying in crystal

crystal ball (plural crystal balls)

1. A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future.

   The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future.

2. (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.

3. One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes

Synonyms

• crystal sphere, orbuculum, shew stone, showstone, seeing stone, scrying stone

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
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• Dutch: glazen bol
• Esperanto: kristalglobo
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• Finnish: kristallipallo (fi)
• French: boule de cristal (fr)
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• German: Glaskugel (de) f, Kristallkugel (de) f
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• 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

way of seeing into the future

• Finnish: kristallipallo (fi)

See also

• scry