oracle

Roget category 513

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.6. Extension of thought
›› 4.6.2. To the future

#513. Oracle

noun

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.

phrase

a prophet is without honor in his own country — you don't need a weatherman to know which way the you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" [Bob Dylan].

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