<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>(especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.</li><li>the agency or medium giving such responses.</li><li>a shrine or place at which such responses were given: the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.</li><li>a person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements.</li><li>a divine communication or revelation.</li><li>any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication.</li><li>any utterance made or received as authoritative, extremely wise, or infallible.</li><li>oracles, the Scriptures.</li><li>the holy of holies of the Biblical Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem.</li></ul>