An authoritative person who divines the future.

synonyms: 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.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

Dutch: ziener, ooggetuige, profeet
Polish: wieszcz, prorok, profeta

A prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible.

A shrine where an oracular god is consulted.

Dutch: orakel
Polish: wyrocznia