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oracle¹
- /ˈɔɹəkəl/
- /ˈɒɹəkəl/
Sounds like auricle
Where it comes from
From Middle English oracle, from Old French oracle m, from Latin ōrāculum n.
noun oracles
- A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity. The oracles are dumb; / No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
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A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecies or advice.
Similar: prophet
- A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given. The several oracles included in this haftarah presumably were uttered at different times to the people in exile, presenting diverse themes and using distinct styles.
- Something said that must come true or cannot be countermanded; an inexorable command or declaration. Fight all couragiouſly and be you kings, I ſpeake it, and my words are oracles.
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A person considered to be a source of wisdom.
a literary oracle
Similar: expert
- A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
- A fortune-teller. "Madame de l'Hôpital has been quite la fée bienfaisante" said Lauzun, who, like others, had been consulting the oracle. "I am bewildered by my future good fortune. I quite anticipate being married, if it is to bring me all that she predicts."
- One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet. God hath now sent his living oracle / Into the world to teach his final will.
- The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself. And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
- A theoretical entity capable of answering some collection of questions. Thus, an oracle machine (which enacts an oracle algorithm) would be like an ordinary Turing machine, except that adjoined to its ordinary computational operations would be another operation: ‘Call in the oracle and ask it whether C_q(n) stops; […]
- A third-party service that provides smart contracts with information from the outside world. For example, an oracle may send temperature data reported by the National Weather Service or report the daily LIBOR rate to a smart contract.
Similar: ariolater, Chaldean, clairvoyant, divinator, diviner, duckerer, foreteller, fortuneteller, oracle, precog, precognitive, predictor, prognosticator, prophet, pythonist, scryer, seer, soothsayer, sortilegus, spaer
verb oracles · oracling · oracled
- To utter oracles or prophecies. But this thy glory shall be soon retrench'd; No more shalt thou by oracling abuse The Gentiles; henceforth Oracles are ceast
Oracle²
proper noun
- A database management system (and its associated software) developed by the Oracle Corporation
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: prophet, prophecy, seer, then, monger, sibyl, delphic, delphian, ephors, soothsayer, augur, diviner, visionary, fortuneteller, medium, psychic
noun
Similar: ariolater, Chaldean, clairvoyant, divinator, diviner, duckerer, foreteller, fortuneteller, oracle, precog, precognitive, predictor, prognosticator, prophet, pythonist, scryer, seer, soothsayer, sortilegus, spaer
Translations
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noun shrine to prophetic deity
| Português | oráculo |
|---|---|
| Français | oracle |
| Deutsch | Orakel |
| Italiano | oracolo |
| Ελληνικά | μαντείο manteío |
| Русский | ора́кул orákul |
noun priest through whom deity provides prophecy or advice
| Español | oráculo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 神託 shintaku, 託宣 takusen, オラクル orakuru |
| 中文 | 甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén |
| Português | oráculo |
| Français | oracle |
| Deutsch | Orakel |
| Italiano | oracolo |
| Ελληνικά | μάντης mántis |
| Русский | ора́кул orákul |
| العربية | كَاهِن kāhin, عَرَّاف ʕarrāf |
noun prophetic response
| Português | oráculo |
|---|---|
| Français | oracle |
| Deutsch | Orakel, Orakelspruch |
| Italiano | oracolo, divinazione |
| Ελληνικά | χρησμός chrismós |
| Русский | прорица́ние proricánije |
| العربية | إِلْهَام ʔilhām |
noun person who is a source of wisdom
| 日本語 | 賢人 kenjin |
|---|---|
| Português | oráculo |
| Français | oracle |
| Deutsch | Orakel |
| Русский | ора́кул orákul, прорица́тель proricátelʹ |
verb utter oracles or prophecies
| Deutsch | orakeln |
|---|---|
| Italiano | profetizzare, presagire, premonire |
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