wisewoman

noun

Definition of wisewomannext
as in sibyl

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Recent Examples of wisewoman Not everyone can labor in a cabin with the wisewoman of their choosing. — Jennifer Block, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wisewoman
  1. sibyl
  2. prophetess
  3. seer
  4. soothsayer
  5. diviner
  6. fortune-teller
  7. oracle
Noun
  • The artist’s ceiling for the Sistine Chapel had included 20 nude males as supporting figures above the prophets and sibyls.
    — Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.
    — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
Definition of sibyl
Noun
  • Brown, a debut novelist and medieval scholar, renders Elizabeth’s rise from impoverished servant to popular prophetess in admirably human and complex terms.
    — Elizabeth Toohey, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Definition of prophetess
Noun
  • Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Post-Homeric legends relate that after returning to Ithaca Odysseus traveled to northern Greece to appease Poseidon, having descended to the underworld in the Odyssey to consult the seer Tiresias on the manner of expiation.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026
Definition of seer
Noun
  • Colman Domingo plays a soothsayer orchestrating the revelation of decades’ worth of evidence that aliens have visited earth in peace.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 June 2026
  • The three soothsayers whose guesses come closest to the actual results will be crowned with a Cinematrix hat, as modeled by Real Housewives of Atlanta peach turned friend-of Cynthia Bailey.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Definition of soothsayer
Noun
  • Ancient Chinese scholars made records of solar eclipses, and diviners made prophecies during these auspicious events.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
  • While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.
    — Essence, Essence, 23 Nov. 2025
Definition of diviner
Noun
  • The first teaser for the film lays out that mission, with Gail speaking with a fortune teller who knows way too well the specifics of Gail’s situation and sets her on her path forward.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Toombs is best known today as the face of fortune teller Madame Leota inside the crystal ball in the Haunted Mansion’s seance circle at Disneyland.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of fortune-teller
Noun
  • All of them are concerned with legacy, particularly among fathers and daughters (Shakespeare had two and lost his only son), and all of them touch a realm beyond the mundane — a place of gods and dreams, oracles and enchantment.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The prompt becomes the starting point for a work process rather than a one-stop consultation of an oracle.
    — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of oracle

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