Other forms: horoscopes
A horoscope is a forecast made from the position of the stars. Read your horoscope, a daily horoscope, cast a horoscope.
Newspaper ones are written to fit anybody, which is the whole trick, and people rate a single vague description as accurate about themselves when it was written for everyone. Astrology has no mechanism and no evidence, and it is very old and very popular.
1nounhoroscopeA forecast made from the position of the stars.
“She reads her horoscope every morning to see what the day will bring.”
horoscope is a forecast.
Greek horoskopos means the hour-watcher — hora, an hour, plus skopos, a watcher.
Proto-Indo-European
*(H)yeh₁-
Ancient Greek
ὡροσκόπος
Medieval Latin
horoscopus
Middle French
horoscope
English, today
horoscope
Middle French horoscope, from Medieval Latin horoscopus, from Ancient Greek ὡροσκόπος, from ὥρα + σκοπός. by surface analysis, horo- + -scope.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA