prophet

IPA: prˈɑfʌt

Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.
Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer.
(Christianity, Judaism) Any of the prophets mentioned in the Bible, especially an author of one of the Prophets.
(Christianity, with "the") Jesus.
(Islam, with "the") Muhammad.
A surname

Examples of "prophet" in Sentences

The term prophet can be interpreted in two ways: God's way and Lusiper's way.
Though the meaning of the term prophet is here indeterminate, Miriam is the first woman ever to bear it.
Eliseus the prophet is a principal figure in the Carmelite Order as he was the first disciple of the prophet Elias, the reputed founder of the Order.
Indeed, the term prophet is regularly used even in modern times for people like Martin Luther King Jr., and it is in this overall sense that I use the word.
The term prophet has survived in literature to be applied to men like Carlyle: fiery spiritual leaders who speak with little pretence of revealing to-morrow.
Founder Joseph Smith took the title "prophet" and claimed divine messages, but also urged members to think for themselves and to ask God directly about the truth of various pronouncements.
Here there is no direct predication concerning Joe Smith, but only a predication of one of the alternatives conditionally on the other being denied, as, _If Joe Smith was not a prophet he was an impostor_; or, _If he was not an impostor, he was a prophet_.