1. A female soothsayer who makes predictions about what is going to happen in the future: Mike paid a visit to a local pythoness to see if she could really present him with anything that was significant about what would actually take place at some later date.
2. Etymology: from Greek puthon and from an alteration of Latin pythonissa, "a soothsaying demon." © ALL rights are reserved.

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