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seer 音標拼音: [s'ir] n. 預言者,先知,幻想家 預言者,先知,幻想家 seer n 1: a person with unusual powers of foresight [synonym: {visionary}, {illusionist}, {seer}] 2: an observer who perceives visually; "an incurable seer of movies" 3: an authoritative person who divines the future [synonym: {prophet}, {prophesier}, {oracle}, {seer}, {vaticinator}] Seer \Seer\ (s[=e]r), a. Sore; painful. [Prov. Eng.] --Ray. [1913 Webster] Seer \Se"er\ (s[=e]"[~e]r), n. One who sees. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Seer \Seer\ (s[=e]r), n. [From {See}.] A person who foresees events; a prophet. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 112 Moby Thesaurus words for "seer": Cassandra, Don Quixote, Druid, Quixote, TV-viewer, astrologer, augur, authority, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, calamity howler, clairvoyant, crystal gazer, daydreamer, divinator, diviner, divineress, doctor, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, drugstore cowboy, elder, elder statesman, enthusiast, escapist, eyewitness, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortune-teller, fortuneteller, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, geomancer, girl-watcher, goggler, great soul, guru, haruspex, idealist, illuminate, intellect, intellectual, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, lotus-eater, lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, mentor, observer, ogler, onlooker, oracle, palmist, perceiver, percipient, philosopher, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, rabbi, religious prophets, rhapsodist, rishi, romancer, romantic, romanticist, sage, sapient, savant, scholar, seeress, sibyl, sidewalk superintendent, soothsayer, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, starets, televiewer, television-viewer, thinker, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, vates, video-gazer, viewer, visionary, watcher, weather prophet, wise man, wise old man, wishful thinker, witness Seer
a name sometimes applied to the prophets because of the visions granted to them. It is first found in 1 Sam. 9:9. It is afterwards applied to Zadok, Gad, etc. (2 Sam. 15:27; 24:11; 1 Chr. 9:22; 25:5; 2 Chr. 9:29; Amos 7:12; Micah 3:7). The "sayings of the seers" (2 Chr. 33:18, 19) is rendered in the Revised Version "the history of Hozai" (marg., the seers; so the LXX.), of whom, however, nothing is known. (See {PROPHET}.) |
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