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say it: prer
prayer is a noun meaning "the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)". It is pronounced /ˈpɹɛɹ/ — prer. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
“the priest sank to his knees in prayer”
reverent petition to a deity
earnest or urgent request
“an entreaty to stop the fighting”
“an appeal for help”
“an appeal to the public to keep calm”
a fixed text used in praying
someone who prays to God
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prayer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.