Entry Word: prayer

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 an address to God or a deity <he always directed a bedside prayer to God before going to sleep>

Synonyms orison

Related Words collect, grace, invocation, litany, thanksgiving; evensong, matins, vespers; appeal, begging, beseeching, entreaty, imploring, petition, pleading, request, soliciting, suit, supplication

2 an earnest request <we hope that the governor will hear our prayer and do something about this pressing problem> — see plea 1