crystal ball

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   a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers

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Questions about crystal ball

What does crystal ball mean?

crystal ball means "a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers".

Is crystal ball a common word?

crystal ball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.