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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who claims to be able to foretell events or predict the future; a seer.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
  2. n. One who prognosticates: a diviner: generally used of a pretender to prophetic powers.
  3. n. A mantis or rearhorse. See cut under Mantidæ. Also called camel-cricket, praying-mantis, devil's horse, devil's race-horse, etc. Synonyms Seer, etc. See prophet.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
  2. n. One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
  3. n. A mantis or rearhorse.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) A mantis.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English sothsaier, zothziggere, equivalent to sooth +‎ sayer. (Wiktionary)

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  • ruzuzu "A mantis or rearhorse. See cut under Mantidæ. Also called camel-cricket, praying-mantis, devil's horse, devil's race-horse, etc. Synonyms Seer, etc. See prophet." --CD&C May 21, 2012

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