Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who claims to be able to foretell events or predict the future; a seer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
- noun One who prognosticates: a diviner: generally used of a pretender to prophetic powers.
- noun A mantis or rearhorse. See cut under
Mantidæ . Also called camel-cricket, praying-mantis, devil's horse, devil's race-horse, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
- noun (Zoöl.) A mantis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who tells the
truth ; atruthful person. - noun One who
predicts thefuture , using magic, intuition or intelligence; adiviner . - noun A
mantis or rearhorse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
Etymologies
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Examples
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So Thebes becomes Themes, Zeus becomes Sooth (as in soothsayer) and Semele becomes Simile.
Archive 2008-06-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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So Thebes becomes Themes, Zeus becomes Sooth (as in soothsayer) and Semele becomes Simile.
More Lost in Translation Hal Duncan 2008
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Upon this, Amarar called his soothsayer, and required him to name a propitious moment for the sally.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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The interpreter translated this for Mesullam, but the soothsayer was all the while in the same suspicious and crabbed mood.
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Queen and a Chaldean soothsayer, which is one of the most powerful in the opera.
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland 1892
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I'm sure that el Señor Bill Gates won't agree with Mark Anderson, but his words are spot on despite being a 20th Century soothsayer aka analyst.
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And for the brief period where Ronan told the rest of them to get stuffed, Shane went out, got tatted up, and reinvented himself as some kind of soothsayer on Celebrity Love Island.
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I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would one day share the French word for "soothsayer" with you.
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I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would one day share the French word for "soothsayer" with you.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would one day share the French word for "soothsayer" with you.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word soothsayer
"A mantis or rearhorse. See cut under Mantidæ. Also called camel-cricket, praying-mantis, devil's horse, devil's race-horse, etc. Synonyms Seer, etc. See prophet." --CD&C
May 21, 2012
shanvrolijk commented on the word soothsayer
"a soothsayer of the ‘singularity’ (when humans will merge with machines, and as a consequence live forever)"
Source: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
January 22, 2018