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priar

priar is the obsolete form of prayer.

priar is the obsolete form of pryer.

Meaning of prayer

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.

See all 7 meanings of prayer

Meaning of pryer

Noun

pryer (plural pryers)

  1. A person who pries; a pry.

See all 2 meanings of pryer

Forms of priar

pluralpriars

Questions about priar

What is priar the obsolete form of?
Priar is the obsolete form of prayer.

Words near priar in the dictionary

  1. Priapos
  2. priapulid
  3. priapulids
  4. priapus
  5. priapuses
  6. priar
  7. priars
  8. Priban
  9. Pribble
  10. Pribbles
  11. pribbles and prabbles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: priar (page history and authors); prayer (page history and authors); pryer (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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