What is another word for prophets?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈɒfɪts] (IPA)

Prophets are individuals who are believed to have special knowledge of the future, or who are able to communicate messages from a higher power. There are many synonyms for the word "prophets", including seers, oracles, visionaries, diviners, clairvoyants, prophetsess, and psychic. Each of these synonyms describes individuals who possess unique abilities and insights into the future, often tapped into through spiritual or supernatural means. While the specific connotations of each synonym may vary slightly, they all are linked by the common belief that these individuals have the power to perceive hidden truths or communicate messages from the divine.

What are the hypernyms for Prophets?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the holonyms for Prophets?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

What are the meronyms for Prophets?

Meronyms are words that refer to a part of something, where the whole is denoted by another word.

Usage examples for Prophets

This was one of the devout Jews who had long been wondering who that mysterious Personage should be of whom all the prophets had spoken, and for whom the world waited that He might complete it.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Drama is to him an interpretation of life, and a guide and leader, as were the words of the old poets and prophets.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
You sound like one of the elderly prophets of doom.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.

Famous quotes with Prophets

  • Jesters do often prove prophets.
    Joseph Addison
  • Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
    William Ames
  • Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
    Buffalo Bill
  • Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
    Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
    Noam Chomsky

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