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# soothsayer

«soothsayer» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who claims to foretell what will happen in the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (soothsayers)

### meaning for a pupil

A person who claims to foretell what will happen in the future. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothsayer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a wise person or magician who tells the future and gives warnings

### examples

- The soothsayer told the king his fortune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothsayer/#x1)
- The soothsayer's son had no time to lose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothsayer/#x2)
- Everyone went to the soothsayer for advice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothsayer/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.74/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «soothsayer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soothsayer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.