prayers
UK/pɹɛəz//pɹɛɹz/
prayers is the plural of prayer.
Meaning of prayer
Noun
prayer (countable and uncountable, plural prayers)
- A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
- Through prayer I ask for God's guidance.
- 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
- The specific words or methods used for praying.
- Christians recite the Lord's Prayer.
- A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
- Grandpa never misses a chance to go to prayer.
- A request; a petition.
- This, your honor, is my prayer; that all here be set free.
- The remotest hope or chance.
- That team doesn't have a prayer of winning the championship.
Phrases with prayers
- dawn prayers
- arrow prayers
- Friday prayers
- sunset prayers
- evening prayers
- morning prayers
- psychic prayers
- sinners' prayers
- say one's prayers
- prayers for relief
- said one's prayers
- says one's prayers
14 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Eucharistic Prayers
- saying one's prayers
- thoughts and prayers
- Prayers of the People
- say someone's prayers
- said someone's prayers
- says someone's prayers
- answer someone's prayers
- saying someone's prayers
- answers someone's prayers
- answered someone's prayers
- answer to someone's prayers
- answering someone's prayers
- answers to someone's prayers
Words that rhyme with prayers
Questions about prayers
- What is prayers the plural of?
- Prayers is the plural of prayer.
- How do you pronounce prayers?
- Prayers is pronounced /pɹɛɹz/ (US).
Words near prayers in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: prayers (page history and authors); prayer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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