From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Mythologyoracleor‧a‧cle /ˈɒrəkəl $ ˈɔː-, ˈɑː-/ noun [countable]1RMsomeone who the ancient Greeks believed could communicate with the gods, who gave advice to people or told them what would happen2RMa message given by an oracle3ADVISEa person or book that gives advice and information – used humorouslyExamples from the Corpusoracle• His Democratic Party loyalty turned him into an oracle who foresawelectoraldisaster for his party in 1980.• Apollo's oracle at Didyma near Miletus recommended an attack on the church.• At Delphi where he went to consult the oracle, the priestess looked at the matter just as he did.• Perhaps Zeus consulted the oracle of Nyx, the primordialsource of all, in order that he himself become fruitful.• It was a bravedeed, for the oracle had said that he who landed first would be the first to die.• The Bible as holyliterature, the oracles of the Logos, has become for them an inanimateobject of scientificinvestigation.• This oracle speaks of a brother as the instrument of death, which fits with the case as it is yet known.Originoracle(1300-1400)FrenchLatinoraculum, from orare; → ORATION
