Soothsayer

Definition: Soothsayer

Soothsayer

Noun

1. Someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge).

Date "soothsayer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	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.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Soothsayer

Synonyms: forecaster (n), predictor (n), prognosticator (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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; interpreter.
Sorcerer	Warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage; cunning man, medicine man; Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica; medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller; mesmerist; deus ex machina; soothsayer.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Soothsayer

English words defined with "soothsayer": Aruspice ♦ Southsayer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "soothsayer": Beleses ♦ Death from Strange Causes ♦ Galeotti ♦ Kirjath-huzoth ♦ Seremenes. (references)

Etymologies containing "soothsayer": Ariolation. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You are in need of a soothsayer. (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart) I'd be a fine soothsayer if I didn't. (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart)
Movie/TV Titles	Pat the Soothsayer (1912)
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Domain	Title
Books	Asterix and the Soothsayer (reference) Asterix e l'Indovino (Italian edition of Asterix and the Soothsayer) (reference) Asterix: El Adivino (Spanish edition of Asterix and the Soothsayer) (reference) Soothsayer (reference) Soothsayer [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Soothsayer (reference) The Soothsayer (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Author	Quotation
G. C. Lichtenberg	You can make a better living in the world as a soothsayer than as a truthsayer.
Marcus Tullius Cicero	I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.
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Title	Author	Quote
Time Enough for Love	Robert Heinlein	But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight.
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"Soothsayer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soothsayer" is used about 17 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
Noun (singular)	100%	17	85,106

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 "soothsayer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fallxhi, falltar (augur, fortune teller, palmist). (various references)

Arabic		‏المتكهن (weird), ‏المتنبئ (predictor, seer), ‏العراف (astrologer, augur, enchanter, seer, warlock, witchdoctor, wizard). (various references)

Bulgarian		гадател (diviner, fortune teller, seer). (various references)

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

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

Farsi		فال بینی . (various references)

Finnish		tietäjä (seer). (various references)

French		divinatoire. (various references)

German		Wahrsager (diviner, fortune teller, fortuneteller, soothsayers). (various references)

Greek		μάντισ (augur), προφήτησ (predictor, prophet, prophetess, seer). (various references)

Hebrew		מ�'י�" עתי�"ות (augur, clairvoyant, fortune teller), מ� חש (clairvoyant, diviner), י�"עו� י (magician, wizard). (various references)

Hungarian		jós (augur, diviner, foreboder, forecaster, fortune teller, fortune-teller, oracle, predictor, prophet, prophetic, seer), jövendőmondó (augur, cole prophet, diviner, divining, prophet, prophetic, prophetical), igazmondó (true, truthful, veracious), ájtatos manó (praying mantis). (various references)

Italian		sortilego. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		卜者 (diviner, fortuneteller), � 者 (diviner, fortuneteller, palmist), � い師 (diviner, fortuneteller, palmist), � 師 (diviner, fortuneteller, palmist). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぼくしゃ (barn, diviner, fortuneteller, herdsman, ranch hand, stable), うらないしゃ (diviner, fortuneteller, palmist), うらないし (diviner, fortuneteller, palmist). (various references)

Manx		guess (spell, taboo), fallogyssagh (diviner), faaishnagh (divination, fortune-teller, fortune-telling, predictive, prophetical). (various references)

Pig Latin		oothsayersay

Portuguese		profeta (augur, oracle, predictor, prophet, seer), louva-a-deus (mantis), adivinho (augur, fortune-teller, powwow, prophet, wizard). (various references)

Romanian		proroc (diviner, prophet), profet (augur, diviner, oracle, predictor, prophesier, prophet, seer), prezicãtor (astrologer, predictor), ghicitor (fortune teller, guesser). (various references)

Russian		предсказатель (diviner, forecaster, fortune teller, predictor, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prorok (augur, diviner, oracle, prophet, seer). (various references)

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

Swedish		siare (prophet, seer). (various references)

Thai		ผู้คา�"การ�"์อนาคต. (various references)

Turkish		kâhin (augur, diviner, oracle, predictor, prophet, seer), gaipten haber veren kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian		віщун (anticipator, augur, chaldean, diviner, forecaster, predictor, prophesier, prophet), ворожка (fortune teller, witch), правдолюб. (various references)

Vietnamese		thầy bói (fortune-teller, prognosticator). (various references)

Welsh		brudiwr (wizard). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aruspices, auguratricis, coniectoribus, coniectoris, incantator, incantatores, incantatori, incantatoribus, incantatorum, propheta, prophetae, prophetam, prophetarum, prophetas, prophetasque, propheten, prophetes, propheticum, prophetis, prophetissa, prophetissam, pseudoprophetes, sortilegus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Joshua Chapter 13, Verse 22
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai ton balaam ton tou bewr ton mantin apekteinan en th roph
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et Balaam filium Beor ariolum occiderunt filii Israhel gladio cum ceteris interfectis
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Balaam, the sone of Beor, dyuynour, the sones of Yrael slewen with swerd with other slayn.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Balaam also the son of Beor, the sooth-sayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slain by them.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword.
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Language	Joshua Chapter 13, Verse 22
Cebuano	Si Balaam usab ang anak nga lalake ni Beor, ang magtatagna nga bakakon, gipatay sa mga anak sa Israel uban sa tanang mga gipatay nila.
Croatian	i vraèa Bileama, sina Beorova, ubili su sinovi Izraelovi oštricom maèa s ostalim žrtvama.
Danish	også Sandsigeren Bileam, Beors Søn, havde Israeliterne dræbt med Sværdet sammen med de andre af dem, der blev slået ihjel.
Dutch	Daartoe hebben de kinderen Israels met het zwaard gedood Bileam, den zoon van Beor, den voorzegger, nevens degenen, die van hen verslagen zijn.
Finnish	Muiden mukana, jotka kaatuivat, israelilaiset surmasivat miekalla myöskin Bileamin, Beorin pojan, tietäjän.
French	Parmi ceux que tuèrent les enfants d`Israël, ils avaient aussi fait périr avec l`épée le devin Balaam, fils de Beor.
German	Auch Bileam, der Sohn Beors, den Weissager erwürgten die Kinder Israel mit dem Schwert samt den Erschlagenen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Di antara orang-orang yang dibunuh oleh bangsa Israel terdapat juga Bileam anak Beor, si peramal.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	pada masa dibunuh bani Israel akan Bileam bin Beor, petenung itu, dengan pedang, serta dengan segala orang lain yang dimakan pedang itu.
Italian	Quanto a Balaam, figlio di Beor, l'indovino, gli Israeliti lo uccisero di spada insieme a quelli che avevano trafitto.
Maori	I patua ano hoki e nga tama a Iharaira ki te hoari a Paraama tama a Peoro, te tohunga maori, i roto i era atu o to ratou parekura.
Norwegian	Også Bileam, Beors sønn, spåmannen, slo Israels barn ihjel med sverdet sammen med de andre som de slo ihjel.
Portuguese	Também ao adivinho Balaão, filho de Beor, os filhos de Israel mataram � espada, juntamente com os demais que por eles foram mortos.
Rumanian	Kntre cei pe cari i-au ucis copiii lui Israel, nimiciserq cu sabia wi pe ghicitorul Balaam, fiul lui Beor.
Swedish	Bileam, Beors son, spåmannen, dräptes ock av Israels barn med svärd, jämte andra som då blevo slagna av dem.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "soothsayer": soothsayers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Soothsayer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soothesayer, soothsager. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "soothsayer" (pronounced suw'thsā"er)
3	-s ā" er	assayer, doomsayer, naysayer, Sayer.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-o-r-s-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: earshots, hoarsest, orthoses, reshoots, sheroots, shooters, soothers, soothsay.
	-3 letters: earshot, estrays, hoorays, hooters, horstes, oysters, rashest, reshoot, sheroot, shooter, shyster, soother, soothes, stayers, storeys, thyrses, trashes.
	-4 letters: ahorse, ashore, assert, assort, asters, earths, earthy, estray, hastes, haters, hayers, hearts, hearty, hoarse, hooeys, hooray, hooter, horses, horsey, horste, horsts, hostas, oaters, orates, others, oyster.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-o-r-s-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: soothsayers.
	+3 letters: chromatolyses.
	+4 letters: heterokaryoses, heterokaryosis, phosphorylates, pyrophosphates, schoolmasterly.
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