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prophet
English
Etymology
From Middle English prophete, from Anglo-Norman prophete, from Latin proph?ta, from Ancient Greek ???????? (proph?t?s, “one who speaks for a god”), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ???? (ph?mí, “I tell”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: pr?f'it, IPA(key): /?p??f.?t/
- (US) enPR: pr?f'it, IPA(key): /?p??f.?t/
- Homophone: profit
Noun
prophet (plural prophets, feminine prophetess)
- Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.
- Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer.
Derived terms
Translations
Middle English
Noun
prophet
- Alternative form of prophete
prophet From the web:
- what prophet married a harlot
- what prophet was swallowed by a whale
- what prophet was fed by ravens
- what prophet anointed david as king
- what prophets were killed in jerusalem
- what prophet laid on his side
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- what prophet was sawed in half
vatic
English
Etymology
From Latin vates (“seer, poet”) +? -ic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?væt?k/
- Rhymes: -æt?k
Adjective
vatic (comparative more vatic, superlative most vatic)
- Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
- The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 129:
- “Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
vatic From the web:
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- what vatican 2 is all about
- what vatican city
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- what vatican 2 changes for nuns
- what vatican city state
- what vatican meaning in hindi
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