Thesaurus:oracle
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: one who predicts future events
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- ariolater
- Chaldean (biblical)
- clairvoyant
- divinator
- diviner
- duckerer
- foreteller
- fortuneteller
- oracle
- precog (science fiction)
- precognitive [⇒ thesaurus]
- predictor [⇒ thesaurus] (uncommon)
- prognosticator
- prophet
- pythonist (archaic)
- scryer
- seer
- soothsayer
- sortilegus
- spaer (Scotland)
Archetypes
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- aeromancer
- astrologer
- augur
- chiromancer
- clairvoyante
- geomancer
- haruspex
- doomsayer
- necromancer
- palmister
- predictress
- seeress
- spaeman (Scotland)
- spaewife (Scotland)
See also
[edit]- Thesaurus:divination
- Thesaurus:precognition
- Thesaurus:predict
- Thesaurus:predictor
- Thesaurus:magician
- Thesaurus:shape-shifter
Further reading
[edit]- “513. oracle” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “oracle” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.