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“soothsayer”
1. Someone who claims to predict the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner: Adam told Eve that a soothsayer said he would inherit a fortune from an inheritance.
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Synonyms of soothsayer include: a prophet, a diviner, an oracle, a fortune-teller.
2. Etymology: from Middle English sothseiere, "one who makes prophecies or predictions" or who speaks sooth, "truth".Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
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