- [countable] (in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim religions) a person sent by God to teach the people and give them messages from God
- Some believe that he was not a true prophet.
- The Bible also warns of false prophets.
Homophones profit | prophetprofit prophet/ˈprɒfɪt//ˈprɑːfɪt/- profit noun
- She's only interested in making a quick profit.
- profit verb
- Patents allowed inventors to profit from ownership of their inventions.
- prophet noun
- With his long white beard, he looks like an Old Testament prophet.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- false
- true
- great
- …
- a prophet of doom
- the Prophet[singular] Muhammad, through whom the Koran was revealed and the religion of Islam established and completedTopics Religion and festivalsc2
- [countable] a person who claims to know what will happen in the futureOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- false
- true
- great
- …
- a prophet of doom
- [countable] prophet (of something) a person who teaches or supports a new idea, theory, etc.
- William Morris was one of the early prophets of socialism.
- the Prophets[plural] the name used for some books of the Old Testament and the Hebrew BibleTopics Religion and festivalsc2
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French prophete, via Latin from Greek prophētēs ‘spokesman’, from pro ‘before’ + phētēs ‘speaker’ (from phēnai ‘speak’).
Idioms
See prophet in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee prophet in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishprophet of doom | doom merchant
- a person who predicts that things will go very badly
- The prophets of doom who said television would kill off the book were wrong.
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