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DIVINER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("diviner" is a kind of...):

illusionist; seer; visionary (a person with unusual powers of foresight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diviner"):

geomancer (one who practices geomancy)

hydromancer (one who practices hydromancy)

lithomancer (one who practices lithomancy)

necromancer (one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead)

oneiromancer (someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams)

onomancer (one who practices onomancy)

oracle; prophesier; prophet; seer; vaticinator (an authoritative person who divines the future)

pyromancer (one who practices pyromancy)

dowser; rhabdomancer; water witch (someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water)

Derivation:

divine (search by divining, as if with a rod)

divine (perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers)

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