Usually means: Foretelling events before they happen.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. prophecy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prophecy: Merriam-Webster
  3. prophecy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prophecy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prophecy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prophecy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prophecy, prophecy: Wordnik
  8. prophecy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prophecy: Wiktionary
  10. prophecy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prophecy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prophecy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prophecy, prophecy: Dictionary.com
  14. prophecy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. prophecy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Prophecy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. prophecy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. prophecy: Rhymezone
  20. prophecy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. prophecy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. prophecy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. prophecy: FreeDictionary.org
  24. prophecy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. prophecy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prophecy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prophecy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. Prophecy: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. prophecy: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  4. prophecy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prophecy: Easton Bible
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. prophecy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
noun:  The public interpretation of Scripture.
verb:  (chiefly dated) Alternative form of prophesy [To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.]

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