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say it: SIB-uhl
sibyl is a noun meaning "a woman who tells fortunes". It is pronounced /ˈsɪbəl/ — SIB-uhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a woman who tells fortunes
(ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
Greece · Rome · antiquity
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 sibyl 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.