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A prophet is someone who teaches or spreads the word of God, or is someone who claims to make predictions about what will happen in the future. (noun)

An example of a prophet was Moses, who heard God deliver the Ten Commandments.
An example of a prophet is someone who predicts what will happen twenty years from now.

See prophet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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