'Soothsayer' definitions:
Definition of 'soothsayer'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) [syn: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer]
Definition of 'Soothsayer'
From: GCIDE
- Soothsayer \Sooth"say`er\, n.
- 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) A mantis. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'soothsayer'
From: Easton
- Soothsayer one who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a "diviner," as rendered 1 Sam. 6:2; rendered "prudent," Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12 (Heb. yonenim, i.e., "diviners of the clouds") the word is used of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Dan. 2:27; 5:7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin, i.e., "deciders" or "determiners", here applied to Chaldean astrologers, "who, by casting nativities from the place of the stars at one's birth, and by various arts of computing and divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.", Gesenius, Lex. Heb. (See SORCERER.)
Synonyms of 'soothsayer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- astrologer,
- augur,
- calamity howler,
- Cassandra,
- crystal gazer,
- divinator,
- diviner,
- divineress,
- Druid,
- forecaster,
- foreknower,
- foreseer,
- foreshower,
- foreteller,
- fortuneteller,
- geomancer,
- haruspex,
- palmist,
- predictor,
- prefigurer,
- presager,
- prognosticator,
- prophesier,
- prophet,
- prophet of doom,
- prophetess,
- psychic,
- pythoness,
- religious prophets,
- seer,
- seeress,
- vates,
- weather prophet