On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Soothsayer. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as forecaster or predictor and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Soothsayer meaning
- One who attempts to predict the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
- A mantis (Mantodea spp.)
- One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
Synonyms of Soothsayer
Using Soothsayer
- The main meaning on this page is: One who attempts to predict the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner. | A mantis (Mantodea spp.) | One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
- Useful related words include: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, visionary.
- In the example corpus, soothsayer often appears in combinations such as: soothsayer to, the soothsayer, village soothsayer.
Context around Soothsayer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Soothsayer
- In this selection, "soothsayer" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, village, late, shamsie, predicting, warned and trending stand out and add context to how "soothsayer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a soothsayer predicting the and as the soothsayer warned malawians. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "soothsayer" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with soothsayer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A soothsayer predicting the fortune of a devotee at the festival. (11 words)
In the campaign, Trump boasted even more expansively about being a soothsayer. (12 words)
The trick with prophecy, for the soothsayer, is in leaving the string unplucked, so says Lisa. (16 words)
I am certainly no soothsayer, and would never invest in a company solely based on hopes that it would be acquired, but Jack Henry & AssociatesTotal System Services would seem to be prime candidates to be a part of a future deal. (41 words)
In Richard III, the play opens with Gloucester having framed Clarence for treason, using a soothsayer to sow doubt in the King's mind about his brother, and in the first scene Clarence is arrested and taken to the Tower. (40 words)
Caesar's assassination is one of the most famous scenes of the play, occurring in Act 3, scene 1. After ignoring the soothsayer, as well as his wife's own premonitions, Caesar comes to the Senate. (36 words)
Example sentences (16)
Nick comes upon the idea to seek a soothsayer to predict what the next big thing in theater will be.
Some predictions from the late soothsayer have "come true" according to various believers, including the UK's recent economic crisis and thunderstorms so loud it sounded like a "bomb went off".
The trick with prophecy, for the soothsayer, is in leaving the string unplucked, so says Lisa.
The governor said Nigerians do not need a soothsayer to tell them that the protests had a political undertone even after the government agreed to the demands of the agitators.
A soothsayer predicting the fortune of a devotee at the festival.
I am certainly no soothsayer, and would never invest in a company solely based on hopes that it would be acquired, but Jack Henry & AssociatesTotal System Services would seem to be prime candidates to be a part of a future deal.
Chinthenga, as the soothsayer, warned Malawians to be wary of Chilima and to treat his promises with a pinch of salt.
In the campaign, Trump boasted even more expansively about being a soothsayer.
The reality is that the default setting of most African families is to resort to a “consultation” with a so-called prophet or soothsayer.
Written in 2015 it anticipated Britain’s first Muslim Home Secretary, long before was on the scene — leading to “Shamsie: Soothsayer?” trending on Twitter when he was appointed in April.
At Rousseau's suggestion, Coignet composed musical interludes for Rousseau's prose poem Pygmalion; this was performed in Lyon together with Rousseau's romance The Village Soothsayer to public acclaim.
Caesar's assassination is one of the most famous scenes of the play, occurring in Act 3, scene 1. After ignoring the soothsayer, as well as his wife's own premonitions, Caesar comes to the Senate.
He wrote both the words and music of his opera Le devin du village (The Village Soothsayer), which was performed for King Louis XV in 1752.
In Richard III, the play opens with Gloucester having framed Clarence for treason, using a soothsayer to sow doubt in the King's mind about his brother, and in the first scene Clarence is arrested and taken to the Tower.
In the next scene, during Caesar's parade on the feast of Lupercal, a soothsayer warns Caesar to "Beware the ides of March", a warning he disregards.
This act was in defiance of a prediction by Tiberius's soothsayer Thrasyllus of Mendes that Caligula had "no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae".
Common combinations with soothsayer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- soothsayer to 4×
- the soothsayer 3×
- village soothsayer 2×