soothsayer
IPA: suθsˈeɪɝ
noun
- One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
- A mantis (Mantodea spp.)
- (obsolete) One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
- A double dart moth (Graphiphora augur).
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Examples of "soothsayer" in Sentences
- Queen and a Chaldean soothsayer, which is one of the most powerful in the opera.
- So Thebes becomes Themes, Zeus becomes Sooth (as in soothsayer) and Semele becomes Simile.
- Upon this, Amarar called his soothsayer, and required him to name a propitious moment for the sally.
- I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would one day share the French word for "soothsayer" with you.
- The interpreter translated this for Mesullam, but the soothsayer was all the while in the same suspicious and crabbed mood.
- 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.
- 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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