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prayer

noun
/pɹɛə/UK/ˈpɹeɪ.ɚ/US/ˈpɾe.jə(ɾ)//ˈpɹeɪə(ɹ)/UK/ˈpɹeɪəɹ/US

Etymology

From Middle English preiere, from Old French preiere, from Early Medieval Latin precāria, derived from Latin precem. Displaced native Old English ġebed (whence modern English bead).

  1. derived from prex
  2. derived from precāria
  3. derived from preiere
  4. inherited from preiere

Definitions

  1. A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.

    • Through prayer I ask for God's guidance.
    • In many cultures, prayer involves singing.

  2. An act of praying.

    • In that spirit, we’ll close with the wish we always offer at the end of our annual review, although this time it’s more of a prayer: Happy new year.

  3. The specific words or methods used for praying.

    • Christians recite the Lord's Prayer.
    • For Baha'is, there's a difference between obligatory prayers and devotional prayers.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.

      • Grandpa never misses a chance to go to prayer.

    2. A request

      A request; a petition.

      • This, your honor, is my prayer; that all here be set free.

    3. The remotest hope or chance.

      • That team doesn't have a prayer of winning the championship.

    4. One who prays.

      • If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar / A hope-er^([sic]), a pray-er^([sic]), a magic bean buyer…
      • Out of the 37 respondents, seven are infrequent prayers who prefer to leave the precise details of their prayer life ambiguous.

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Derived

antiprayer, arrow prayer, call to prayer, dawn prayer, evening prayer, Friday prayers, house of prayer, morning prayer, not have a prayer, on a wing and a prayer, prayer bead, prayer beads, prayer book, prayer box, prayer bump, prayer card, prayer circle, prayer flag, prayer for relief, prayerful, prayerhouse, prayerish, prayerless, prayerlike, prayer mat, prayer meeting, prayer mill, prayer-monger, prayer plant, prayer room, prayer rope, prayer rug, prayer shawl, Prayers of the People, prayersome, prayer square, prayer wheel, prayerwise, preprayer, psychic prayer · +5 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prayer. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at prayer. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at prayer

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA