diviner:
(plural: ‘diviners‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘di’ rhyme with the letter ‘di’ in “dip”, and the letters ‘vi’ rhyme with the letters ‘vi’ in “vine”)
a diviner/a prophet/a soothsayer
a prophet; a soothsayer;
a person who is highly educated in religion; (in some communities) a religious person; a clergy;
a person who could find out/tell about something just by guessing/thinking deeply;
a person who is supposed to have or who claims to have super-natural powers to tell the future;
a person who can find underground water using a Y shaped stick called a ‘divine rod’; a dowser,
a water diviner with his 'diving rod'
In the past, a person, especially a religious person, who could foresee future events, either by guess or experience, was highly respected and addressed with the title ‘diviner’.
There are people who go to a diviner whenever they face with a domestic problem so that the diviner may give them some solution to solve the problem or, at least, to keep the problem less complicated.
It is surprising to learn that people, even well-educated city dwellers, seek the advice of water diviners, also called ‘dowsers’, who use ‘diving rod’ or ‘drowsing rod’, in finding underground water sources!
a diviner foreseeing future with his supernatural powers
