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    proph·et
    [ˈpräfət]
    noun
    prophet (noun) · prophets (plural noun) · the Prophet (noun) · Prophets (plural noun) · the Prophets (plural noun)
    1. a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God:
      "the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah"
      • (the Prophet)
        (among Muslims) Muhammad.
      • (the Prophet)
        (among the Latter-day Saints or Mormons) Joseph Smith or one of his successors.
      • a person who advocates or speaks in a visionary way about a new belief, cause, or theory:
        "a prophet of radical individualism"
      • a person who makes or claims to be able to make predictions:
        "the anti-technology prophets of doom"
    2. (the Prophets)
      (in Christian use) the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the twelve minor prophets.
      • (in Jewish use) one of the three canonical divisions of the Hebrew Bible, distinguished from the Law and the Hagiographa, and comprising the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and the twelve minor prophets.
    Origin
    Old English propheta, via Latin from Greek prophētēs ‘interpreter, expounder’, from pro ‘before’ + phētēs ‘speaker’ (from phēnai ‘speak’); subsequently reinforced by Old French prophete.
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    noun
    1. a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God:
      seer
      soothsayer
      fortune teller
      clairvoyant
      prognosticator
      prophesier
      diviner
      prophetess
      oracle
      augur
      sibyl
      haruspex
      vaticinator
      forecaster of the future
      spaewife
      spaeman
      oracler
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