An oracle a person or thing considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions.
Oracle or The Oracle may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
editFictional entities
edit- Oracle (Marvel Comics), a fictional character
- Oracle, the DC Comics character Barbara Gordon
- Gus Yale, a a Batman supporting character
- Oracle, the original alias of the DC Comics character who would be reimagined as Aurakles
- Oracle, in Spider Riders
- Oracle, in streaming TV series Dota: Dragon's Blood
- Oracle Inc., a company established by the Marvel character Namor
- The Oracle (The Matrix)
- The Oracle, a W.I.T.C.H. character
- The Oracle, in Aladdin and the King of Thieves
- The Oracle, in Casper Meets Wendy
- Oracle Turret, a Portal character
- Oracle, the codename for Futaba Sakura, a character from Persona 5
Film and television
edit- ORACLE (teletext), a British teletext service
- The Oracle (1953 film), or The Horse's Mouth, a 1953 film
- The Oracle (1985 film), a 1985 film
- Oracle (upcoming film), an American horror thriller film
- The Oracle (TV series), a 1979 Australian drama series
- "The Oracle" (The Amazing World of Gumball), a television episode
Literature
edit- Oracle, a 2010 novel by Jackie French
- "Oracle", a short story by Greg Egan, 2000
- The Oracle (novel), by Catherine Fisher, 2003
- The Oracle (University of South Florida), a student newspaper
- The Oracle (magazine), a defunct role-playing games magazine
- The Oracle, a 1951 novel by Edwin O'Connor
- The Oracle, a student newspaper of Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
- The Oracle, a student newspaper of Stratford High School (Houston), Texas, U.S.
- The Oracles, a 1955 comic novel by Margaret Kennedy
- ORA:CLE, a 1984 novel by Kevin O'Donnell Jr.
- San Francisco Oracle, a 1960s underground newspaper
Music
edit- Oracles (band), a Belgian melodic death metal band
- Oracle (Gary Peacock and Ralph Towner album), 1993
- Oracle (Kittie album), 2001
- Oracle (Michael Hedges album), 1996
- Oracle (EP), by Sunn O))), 2007
- Oracles (album), by Fleshgod Apocalypse, 2009
- The Oracle (Cindy Blackman album), 1995
- The Oracle (Dark Sermon album), 2015
- The Oracle (Godsmack album), 2010
- The Oracle (Hank Jones album), 1989
- "The Oracle", a 2012 composition by Tony Banks
- "Oracle", a 2013 song by Scale the Summit
- "Oracle", a 2016 song by Timmy Trumpet
Computing
edit- Oracle Corporation, a multinational computer technology company
- Oracle Database, a database management system
- ORACLE (computer), an early computer
- Oracle machine, or oracle, in complexity theory and computability theory
- Blockchain oracle, a service that connects smart contracts with the outside world
Places
edit- Oracle, Arizona, U.S.
- Oracle (workhouse), in Reading, England
- Oracle Arena, now Oakland Arena, in Oakland, California, U.S.
- The Oracle, Queensland, Australia, an apartment development
- The Oracle, Reading, England, a shopping mall
Other uses
edit- Oracle (rocket), model rocket for aerial photography
- Oracle Team USA, an American yacht racing syndicate
- Internet Oracle, a collaborative humor website
- Oracle bone script, an ancient form of Chinese characters
- The Oracle (Fisher Towers), a sandstone tower in Utah, USA
See also
edit- All pages with titles beginning with Oracle
- All pages with titles beginning with The Oracle
- All pages with titles containing Oracle
- Auricle (disambiguation)
- Divination, the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual
- Revelation, the revealing of knowledge through communication with a deity or supernatural entity
- Fortune-telling, the practice of predicting information about a person's life
- Omen, a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future
- Urim and Thummim in Judaism, a set of two objects used by the high priest to answer a question or reveal the will of God