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oracle
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 oracle
An authoritative person who divines the future.
synoniemen: prophesier, prophet, seer, vaticinator.
Roget 462:
answer,
response,
reply,
replication,
riposte,
rejoinder,
surrejoinder†,
rebutter,
surrebutter†,
retort,
repartee;
rescript,
rescription†;
antiphon†,
antiphony;
acknowledgment;
password;
echo;
counter statement.
discovery
etc.
480.1;
solution
etc.
(explanation)
522;
rationale
etc.
(cause)
153;
clue
etc.
(indication)
550.
Oedipus;
oracle
etc.
513;
return
etc.
(record)
551.
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Roget 513:
oracle;
prophet,
prophesier,
seer,
soothsayer,
augur,
fortune teller,
crystal gazer†,
witch,
geomancer†,
aruspex†;
aruspice†,
haruspice†;
haruspex;
astrologer,
star gazer†;
Sibyl;
Python,
Pythoness†;
Pythia;
Pythian oracle,
Delphian oracle;
Monitor,
Sphinx,
Tiresias,
Cassandra†,
Sibylline leaves;
Zadkiel,
Old Moore;
sorcerer
etc.
994;
interpreter,
etc.
524.
[person who predicts by non-mystical (natural) means]
predictor,
prognosticator,
forecaster;
weather forecaster,
weatherman.
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Roget 500:
sage,
wise man;
genius;
master mind,
master spirit of the age;
longhead†,
thinker;
intellectual,
longhair.
authority,
oracle,
luminary,
shining light,
esprit fort,
magnus Apollo [Lat.],
Solon,
Solomon,
Nestor,
Magi,
second Daniel. "
man of learning
etc.
492;
expert
etc.
700;
wizard
etc.
994.
wiseacre [Iron.],
bigwig,
know-it-all;
poor man's Einstein.
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Roget 511:
prediction,
announcement;
program,
programme [Brit.]
etc.
(plan)
626;
premonition
etc.
(warning)
668;
prognosis,
prophecy,
vaticination,
mantology†,
prognostication,
premonstration†;
augury,
auguration†;
ariolation†,
hariolation†;
foreboding,
aboding†;
bodement†,
abodement†;
omniation†,
omniousness†;
auspices,
forecast;
omen
etc.
512;
horoscope,
nativity;
sooth†,
soothsaying;
fortune telling,
crystal gazing;
divination;
necromancy
etc.
992.
[Divination by the stars]
astrology†,
horoscopy†,
judicial astrology†.
[Place of Prediction].
adytum
prefiguration†,
prefigurement;
prototype,
type.
[person who predicts]
oracle
etc.
513.
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Nederlands: ziener, ooggetuige, profeet
Pools: wieszcz, prorok, profeta
2 oracle
A prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible.
3 oracle
A shrine where an oracular god is consulted.
Nederlands: orakel
Pools: wyrocznia
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