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sibyls

sibyls is the plural of sibyl.

Meaning of sibyl

Noun

sibyl (plural sibyls)

  1. A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.
    • A Sybill that had numbred in the world
      The Sun to courſe, two hundred compaſſes,
      In her Prophetticke furie ſow'd the Worke:c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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Questions about sibyls

What is sibyls the plural of?
Sibyls is the plural of sibyl.

Words near sibyls in the dictionary

  1. Sibylla
  2. sibyllic
  3. sibylline
  4. sibyllist
  5. sibyllists
  6. sibyls
  7. sibynophiid
  8. sibynophiids
  9. sibyrhynchid
  10. sibyrhynchids
  11. sic

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