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oracle or·a·cle

Spelling: [awr-uh-kuh l, or-]

IPA: /ˈɔr ə kəl, ˈɒr-/

Oracle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in oracle (acelor).

Definitions for oracle

noun

1. (especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
2. the agency or medium giving such responses.
3. a shrine or place at which such responses were given:
4. a person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements.
5. a divine communication or revelation.
6. any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication.
7. any utterance made or received as authoritative, extremely wise, or infallible.
8. oracles, the Scriptures.
9. the holy of holies of the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem. I Kings 6:16, 19–23.

Origin of oracle

1350-1400; Middle English Old French Latin ōrāculum, equivalent to ōrā(re) to plead (see oration) + -culum -cle²

Examples for oracle

For an oracle says that when a man of brass or iron guards the State, it will be destroyed.

If the first was the oracle of White's, the second was trusted at Brookes's.

He gave us a stunning lecture on the topic of the oracle (you can get a taste of what it was like here).

The oracle was dressed, as I have said, very richly, in the Chinese fashion.

Just this week, oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Apple was adrift without Steve Jobs.

A few months before the Autonomy purchase was unveiled in August 2011, oracle boss Larry Ellison passed on the chance.

And, anyway, what would it take to be a Samuel Gompers at Microsoft, Facebook, oracle, Amazon, or Google?

The oracle is dumb, and the end of it all is rather like a prayer.

People seemed to have believed that the oracle was really pointing the way for them.

How shall we interpret the oracle, you and I and the old intriguer?