PRAYER: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for PRAYER?

Need another word that means the same as “prayer”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “prayer” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Prayer” are: appeal, entreaty, supplicant, supplication, orison, petition, invocation, intercession, devotion, religious worship, worship, religious observance

Prayer as a Noun

Definitions of "Prayer" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “prayer” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• An earnest hope or wish.
• The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving.
• A solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or another deity.
• Someone who prays to God.
• Reverent petition to a deity.
• A fixed text used in praying.
• A religious service, especially a regular one, at which people gather in order to pray together.
• Earnest or urgent request.

Synonyms of "Prayer" as a noun (12 Words)

appeal	A serious, urgent, or heartfelt request. An appeal for help.
devotion	Feelings of ardent love. She was the epitome of wifely devotion.
entreaty	Earnest or urgent request. An entreaty to stop the fighting.
intercession	The action of saying a prayer on behalf of another. He only escaped ruin by the intercession of his peers with the king.
invocation	(in the Christian Church) a form of words such as ‘In the name of the Father’ introducing a prayer, sermon, etc. His invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish.
orison	Reverent petition to a deity.
petition	Reverent petition to a deity. A divorce petition.
religious observance	A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience.
religious worship	A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience.
supplicant	One praying humbly for something. We are equals and not supplicants begging for work.
supplication	A prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service. He fell to his knees in supplication.
worship	The activity of worshipping. Worship of the Mother Goddess.

Usage Examples of "Prayer" as a noun

• I'll say a prayer for him.
• The priest sank to his knees in prayer.
• The peace of God is ours through prayer.
• 500 people were detained as they attended Friday prayers.
• It is our prayer that the current progress on human rights will be sustained.

Associations of "Prayer" (30 Words)

appeal	Be attractive to. An appeal for help.
beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. A piece of bread which I begged from a farmer.
beseech	Ask for or request earnestly. They earnestly beseeched his forgiveness.
buddhism	The teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffer.
calvary	A hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
church	Take a woman who has recently given birth to church for a service of thanksgiving. Don t be late for church.
conjure	Implore (someone) to do something. She had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother s face.
entreat	Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something. His friends entreated him not to go.
entreaty	An earnest or humble request. An entreaty to stop the fighting.
implore	Beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something. I implore mercy.
invocation	An incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural. His invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish.
litany	A litany contained in the Book of Common Prayer. The patient recited a litany of complaints.
majestically	With impressive beauty or scale. The steep slopes of the valley floor rise majestically skywards.
monk	United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982.
mosque	(Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret.
offertory	An anthem accompanying the offertory. They donated the money to a collection which was brought up at the offertory.
petition	Reverent petition to a deity. The organization is petitioning the EU for a moratorium on the patent.
plea	An answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed. He changed his plea to not guilty.
plead	Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. Don t go she pleaded.
please	Used in polite requests or questions. It pleased him to be seen with someone in the news.
pray	Address a deity a prophet a saint or an object of worship say a prayer. Pray to the Lord.
priestess	A female priest of a non-Christian religion.
solicitation	The act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money. A solicitation to the king for relief.
suppliant	Making or expressing a plea, especially to someone in power or authority. A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness.
supplicant	One praying humbly for something. A supplicant serf before an ill tempered monarch.
supplicate	Ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer. The plutocracy supplicated to be made peers.
supplication	A prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service. He fell to his knees in supplication.
synagogue	A Jewish assembly or congregation.
temple	A thing regarded as holy or likened to a temple especially a person s body. The veins in his temple throbbed.
temporal	Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world. Our temporal existence.