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# prophetess

«prophetess» in Mova's school dictionary: **A woman who foretells what will happen in the future** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (prophetess, prophetesses)

### meaning for a pupil

A woman who foretells what will happen in the future. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophetess/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old myths, a prophetess warns of danger, but nobody believes her

### examples

- The prophetess warned the king of the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophetess/#x1)
- Nobody believed the prophetess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophetess/#x2)
- The prophetess had said the boy would be a hero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophetess/#x3)
- Her words came true, as the prophetess had said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophetess/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.98/)
- [And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.164/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prophetess» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prophetess/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.