Usually means: Communicate reverently with a deity.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word pray:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pray: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pray: Merriam-Webster
  3. pray: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pray: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pray: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pray: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pray, pray: Wordnik
  8. pray: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pray, pray: Wiktionary
  10. pray: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pray: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pray: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pray: Dictionary.com
  14. pray: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pray: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pray (Crematory album), Pray (DJ BoBo song), Pray (Justin Bieber song), Pray (Lasgo song), Pray (MC Hammer song), Pray (Sam Smith song), Pray (Take That song), Pray (Tina Cousins song), Pray (Tomoko Kawase song), Pray (disambiguation), Pray (film), Pray (song), Pray: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pray: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pray: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pray: Rhymezone
  20. pray: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pray: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pray: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pray: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pray: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. pray: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pray: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. pray: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Pray (song), pray: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pray: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PRAY: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. pray: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pray: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prayed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (religion) 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.
verb:  To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
verb:  (obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
verb:  To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.
verb:  (obsolete or law) To implore, to entreat, to request.
adverb:  (archaic or formal) Please; used to make a polite request
noun:  A surname.
adverb:  Alternative form of pray tell (“I ask you”)

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