Diviner

Definition: Diviner

Diviner

Noun

1. Someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers.

Date "diviner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Domain	Definition
Mining	Dowser. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Diviner

English words defined with "diviner": Divinator, Divinistre ♦ Haruspice ♦ Mantologist ♦ Pythonist ♦ Spaeman ♦ wand. (references)

Specialty definitions using "diviner": Moses' Rod. (references)

Etymologies containing "diviner": Divinistre. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Rituals of the Diviner (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica Ser. Vol 12) (reference) The Daykeeper, the Life and Discourse of an Ixil Diviner (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Diviner" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Diviner" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (comparative)	86.67%	13	97,576
Noun (singular)	13.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Expression using "diviner": water diviner. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "diviner": human-diviner.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "diviner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		profetizues, parashikues (predictive, predictor, prescient, prophet, provident, seer, up and coming). (various references)

Arabic		‏عراف (forecaster, fortune teller, threader), ‏المستنبىء, ‏بصار. (various references)

Bulgarian		ясновидец (clairvoyant, visionary), гадател (fortune teller, seer, soothsayer). (various references)

Czech		vìštec (fortune teller, oracle, prophet, soothsayer). (various references)

Dutch		wichelaar (augur, fortune teller, soothsayer), waarzegger (augur, fortune teller, soothsayer), voorspeller (augur, fortune teller, prophet, soothsayer). (various references)

French		devineur. (various references)

German		wahrsager (fortune teller, fortuneteller, soothsayer, soothsayers), Wünschelgänger. (various references)

Greek		μάντησ (clairvoyant, prognosticator, prophet). (various references)

Hebrew		מ� חש עתי�"ות (fortune teller), מ� חש (clairvoyant, soothsayer). (various references)

Hungarian		jós (augur, foreboder, forecaster, fortune teller, fortune-teller, oracle, predictor, prophet, prophetic, seer, soothsayer). (various references)

Italian		rabdomante (dowser, water diviner). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		陰陽師 , 卜者 (fortuneteller, soothsayer), �"者 (fortuneteller), 巫 (medium, shrine maiden), � 者 (fortuneteller, palmist, soothsayer), � い師 (fortuneteller, palmist, soothsayer), � 師 (fortuneteller, palmist, soothsayer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お�"ようじ, ぼくしゃ (barn, fortuneteller, herdsman, ranch hand, soothsayer, stable), うらないしゃ (fortuneteller, palmist, soothsayer), うらないし (fortuneteller, palmist, soothsayer), か�"なぎ (medium, shrine maiden), えきしゃ (fortuneteller, station building). (various references)

Manx		fallogyssagh (soothsayer), faaishneyder (augur, charmer, predictor). (various references)

Pig Latin		ivinerday

Romanian		proroc (prophet, soothsayer), profet (augur, oracle, predictor, prophesier, prophet, seer, soothsayer). (various references)

Russian		прорицатель (augur), предсказатель (forecaster, fortune teller, predictor, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, soothsayer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrač (fortune teller, mage, medicine man, medicineman, sorcerer, witch doctor), prorok (augur, oracle, prophet, seer, soothsayer), obožavatelj (admirer, fan, follower). (various references)

Spanish		adivino (augur, fortune teller, fortuneteller, fortune-teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer), adivinador. (various references)

Swedish		spåman (fortune teller, fortune-teller, predictor, prophet, python), slagruteman (dowser, water diviner). (various references)

Turkish		su yatağını çubukla bulan kimse, kâhin (augur, oracle, predictor, prophet, seer, soothsayer), falcı (augur, fortune teller, seer, Warlock). (various references)

Ukrainian		віщун (anticipator, augur, chaldean, forecaster, predictor, prophesier, prophet, soothsayer). (various references)

Vietnamese		người tiên đoán (vaticinator), người bói, người đoán. (various references)

Welsh		dewin (augur, enchanter, mage, magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	�u-ma�-gid-gid. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	arioli, ariolis, ariolo, ariolos, ariolum, aruspices, auguratricis, coniectoribus, coniectoris. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "diviner": diviners. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Diviner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Davinia, Devendra, Devinder, deviner, disine, divane, diviana, divin, Divinae, divini, Divonne, dovier, dovine, Kijiner. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-r-v"
	-1 letter: divine, driven, verdin, vinier.
	-2 letters: diner, diver, drive, indie, indri, ivied, rived, riven, vined, virid.
	-3 letters: deni, dine, dire, dive, ired, irid, nerd, nevi, nide, nidi, rein, rend, ride, rind, rive, vein, vend, vide, vied, vier, vine.
	-4 letters: den, dev, die, din, end, ern, ire, red, rei, rev, rid, rin, vie.
	-5 letters: de, ed, en.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-r-v"
	+1 letter: deriving, diviners.
	+2 letters: depriving, diverging, diversion, diverting, driveline, driveling, misdriven, redriving, reinvited.
	+3 letters: biliverdin, coderiving, delivering, derivation, disserving, diversions, drivelines, drivelling, drivetrain, indurative, overriding, redividing, redivision, reinvading, unverified, viewfinder, vivandiere.
	+4 letters: advertising, advertizing, bedriveling, biliverdins, denigrative, deprivation, derivations, desilvering, discovering, dissevering, drivetrains, evidentiary, improvident, interviewed, inventoried, invigorated, overbidding, overdriving, overediting, overgilding, overgirding, overwinding, previsioned, provisioned, redivisions, veratridine, viewfinders, vineyardist, viridescent, vivandieres.
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