Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
One who farsees; prophet; soothsayer; fortuneteller.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fantasy
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noun
An instrument or tool used to farsee; scope
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: nonce-word
Topics: fantasy
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noun
A television set.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Modelled after German Fernseher (“TV set”, literally “farseer”), from Fernsehen (“television”, literally “farsee”), calque of French télévision, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “far away”) and Latin visio (“sight”). By surface analysis, far + seer.
