diviner
nounUK /dɪˈvaɪnə(ɹ)/ · CA, US /dɪˈvaɪnɚ/
Etymology From Middle English divinour, from Latin dīvīnātor (“diviner; fortune-teller; soothsayer”), from dīvīnāre (“to foresee, to foretell”). Doublet of divinator. Equivalent to divine + -er.
1
One who foretells the future.
- Saw my future with a death diviner / My reflection in her eyes drew up / My twisted past / Oh, I came unmasked2020, Soilwork, “Death Diviner”, in A Whisp of the Atlantic:
2
One who divines or conjectures.
3
One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
- Synonyms
- foreteller, fortune-teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer, water diviner, dowser
- Derived terms
- divineress, diviner's sage, water diviner
- Related terms
- divine