PROPHETESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prophetess mean? 

• PROPHETESS (noun)
  The noun PROPHETESS has 1 sense:

1. a woman prophet

  Familiarity information: PROPHETESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPHETESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman prophet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("prophetess" is a kind of...):

oracle; prophesier; prophet; seer; vaticinator (an authoritative person who divines the future)

Instance hyponyms:

Cassandra ((Greek mythology) a prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but were never believed)

 Context examples 

Hannah 'felt in her bones' that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)