Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - prophet
Prophet
prophet
n. (fem. prophetess) 1 a teacher or interpreter of the supposed will of God, esp. any of the Old Testament or Hebrew prophets. 2 a a person who foretells events. b a person who advocates and speaks innovatively for a cause (a prophet of the new order). 3 (the Prophet) a Muhammad. b Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, or one of his successors. c (in pl.) the prophetic writings of the Old Testament. 4 colloq. a tipster. Derivatives prophethood n. prophetism n. prophetship n. Etymology: ME f. OF prophete f. L propheta, prophetes f. Gk prophetes spokesman (as PRO-(2), phetes speaker f. phemi speak)
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noun see: for Date: 12th century one who utters divinely inspired revelations: as, the writer of one of the ~ic books of the Bible, one regarded by a group of followers as the final authoritative revealer of God's will , one gifted with more than ordinary spiritual and moral insight, one who foretells future events ; predictor, an effective or leading spokesman for a cause, doctrine, or group, 5. Christian Science a spiritual seer, disappearance of material sense before the conscious facts of spiritual Truth, ~hood noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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