necromancer
noun
a person who uses witchcraft or sorcery, especially to reanimate dead people or to foretell the future by communicating with them.
necromancers
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pluralof necromancer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We might have forgotten all about the “Top Model” house of horrors if not for the twin necromancers of streaming and social media.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
Wearing sweatshirts and mom jeans, they look more like a focus group on suburban Costco shoppers than a circle of aspiring necromancers.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018
If Ben Mezrich’s “Woolly” is to be believed, mammoths may be returning someday soon to a tundra near you, resurrected by the necromancers of synthetic biology.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
Early records of Haitian zombies described them as pliant laborers, summoned from their graves by greedy necromancers to work in sugar-cane fields at night.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
Good people and worthy citizens of this town," he might say, "behold in me the great master ... prince of necromancers, astrologer, second mage, chiromancer, agromancer, pyromancer, hydromancer.
From German Culture Past and Present by Ernest Belfort Bax
