Synonyms for prayer
ˈpreɪ ərprayer

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1. prayer

   Synonyms:
   petition, supplication, entreaty, orison, benediction, suit, request

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1. prayer, supplicationnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, orison, supplication, supplicant, invocation, plea, appeal, petition

2. prayer, petition, orisonnoun

   reverent petition to a deity

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, orison, postulation, supplication, supplicant, appeal, petition, request

3. entreaty, prayer, appealnoun

   earnest or urgent request

   "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, orison, supplication, ingathering, supplicant, collection, charm, appeal, petition, solicitation, appealingness

4. prayernoun

   a fixed text used in praying

   Synonyms:
   orison, supplicant, appeal, supplication, entreaty, petition

5. prayer, supplicantnoun

   someone who prays to God

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, orison, supplication, supplicant, requester, appeal, petition, petitioner, suppliant

Matched Categories

1. • Request
   • Sacred Text

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1. benediction

   Submitted by Jibtek180979 on July 3, 2020  

2. namaz

   prayer to be performed by muslims 5 times a day.

   namaz is the second pillar of islam.

   Submitted by rinat on September 3, 2019  

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1. prayernoun

   Synonyms:
   supplication, entreaty, suit, petition, request, SUFFRAGE

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1. prayernoun

   Synonyms:
   invocation, orison, collect, suffrage, supplication, obsecration, litany, rogation, rosary, euchologion, secreta, entreaty, intercession

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1. List of paraphrases for "prayer":

   prayers, please, pray, praying, sentence, kindly, worship, salat

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1. Loraine Maurer:

   I know what goes on with them [her customers], I know some of their children. Some ask me to say a prayer and I do, i know their lives.

2. Mexico City:

   We have always encouraged prayer, honesty, look at the way we dress, it is very honest, the haircuts, the way the women dress. We practice what we preach.

3. Colleen Thompson:

   Colleen Thompson future daughter was an emotional service for me, and I needed that time in prayer, after Mass, I was able to spend some time appreciating the beauty of the church.

4. Phil Ginn:

   Now, with this ruling, teachers and public officials all across America need not be afraid to privately bow their heads in thanksgiving or prayer to Almighty God, a right that has always been included in our basic rights granted under the Constitution. May it always be so.

5. President Muhammadu Buhari:

   We are making contacts with everybody who is involved, the ones that we can identify, through them, the ones that we can’t identify so that there is a lot more inclusiveness in this dialogue, our prayer is that this works so that we resort to dialogue rather than use of force.