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DIVINER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does diviner mean?
• DIVINER (noun)
The noun DIVINER has 1 sense:
1. someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers
Familiarity information: DIVINER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
Context examples
Miss Ingram placed herself at her leader's right hand; the other diviners filled the chairs on each side of him and her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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