prayer

Meaning

1. A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
2. An act of praying.
3. The specific words or methods used for praying.
4. A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
5. A request; a petition.
6. The remotest hope or chance.

Synonyms

supplication

request

petition

entreaty

orison

praying

wish

worship

application

adoration

appeal

plea

blessing

devotion

afternoon

rogation

demand

order

invocation

solicitation

word

sacred text

supplicant

pray

🛐

twilight

vow

ask

beseech

motion

benediction

pre-dawn

devotions

complaint

evening

🌆

intercession

Te Deum

perform

petitioner

pledge

poem

praise

prayerful

prayers

beg

priest

promise

qualification

question

❓

reading

representation

bead

requirement

rite

aspiration

service

services

regular prayer

song

🎶

speech

stand

stand up

stipulation

suffrage

asking

sup plication

applicant

worshipper

beg for

laying claim

my god

obsecration

one who prays

salat

one’s desire

heartfelt wish

prayer meeting

religion

invocation of Allah

exclamation of solicitation

expert in ritual repetition

flow of speech

cry

😢

collect

claim

desire

dream

😴💭

chant

hymn

insistency

stand in rows

mantra

meditation

music

🎶

oath

oration

call

boon

paternoster

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹɛə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: preiere

In summary

From Middle English preiere, from Old French preiere, from Early Medieval Latin precāria, derived from Latin precem. Displaced native Old English ġebed.