pray'r

Noun

prayer (countable and uncountable, plural prayers)

1. (uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
   • Through prayer I ask for God's guidance.
2. (countable) An act of praying.
   • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
3. The specific words or methods used for praying.
   • Christians recite the Lord's Prayer.
4. A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
   • Grandpa never misses a chance to go to prayer.
5. (countable) A request; a petition.
   • This, your honor, is my prayer; that all here be set free.
6. (singular) The remotest hope or chance.
   • That team doesn't have a prayer of winning the championship.

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