prays
UK/pɹeɪz/
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British/pɹɛjz/
prays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pray.
Meaning of pray
Verb
pray (third-person singular simple present prays, present participle praying, simple past and past participle prayed)
- To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
- Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.
- To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
- To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
- I know not how to pray your patience.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.
- She is praying that the Red Sox will win tonight.
- To implore, to entreat, to request.
- They prayd him sit, and gave him for to feed
Such homely what as serves the simple clowne,
That doth despise the dainties of the towne[…]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7
- They prayd him sit, and gave him for to feed
Proper noun capitalized: Prays
Prays
- plural of Pray
Phrases with prays
Words that rhyme with prays
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- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
Questions about prays
- What is prays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Prays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pray.
- What part of speech is prays?
- Prays is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce prays?
- Prays is pronounced /pɹeɪz/ (UK).
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