Tra từ prophecy - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

proph‧e‧cy/ˈprɒfəsi, ˈprɒfɪsi $ ˈprɑː-/ noun (plural prophecies)
1. [COUNTABLE]
a statement that something will happen in the future, especially one made by someone with religious or magic powers ⇨ prophet
prophecy (that)
　 ▪ The prophecy that David would become King was fulfilled.
prophecy of
　 ▪ the prophecy of Isaiah

2. [UNCOUNTABLE]
the power or act of making statements about what will happen in the future:
　 ▪ She had the gift of prophecy.
⇨ self-fulfilling prophecy at self-fulfilling

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
self-fulfilling prophecy
▪ It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: expect things to go wrong, and they probably will.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
old
▪ This refrain is a conflation of two verses from the classic period of Old Testament prophecy in Isaiah 11 and Habakkuk 2.
▪ It was intended, quite flamboyantly, to fulfil Old Testament prophecy.
VERB
become
▪ It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy, though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
▪ It turns confusion into curiosity and stops myths from becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.
▪ I say this whether or not it is entirely true because I suspect my words can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
▪ These labels can become self-fulfilling prophecies.
fulfil
▪ The power that had selected him to fulfil the prophecy.
▪ However, among their ranks it is universally believed that their leader - Rabbi Menachem Schneerson - will fulfil the Messianic prophecy.
▪ I finally encountered the bomb baby, thus fulfilling the ironic prophecy of my dreams.
▪ It was intended, quite flamboyantly, to fulfil Old Testament prophecy.
make
▪ Increased speed of communication means that people can act much more quickly and can make trends into self-fulfilling prophecies.
▪ They intended to make a prophecy that would be self-fulfilling in its entirety.
▪ Telling me his dream was one thing; making his first prophecy to the King's face was quite another.
▪ I haven't seen it clearly myself, but once, before he was King, I made a prophecy for Arthur.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Amazingly, the manager's prophecy that the team would get into the first division seems to be coming true.
▪ Lij Yasu was never crowned, possibly because he believed a prophecy that if he became king he would die.
▪ the biblical prophecy of a world war
▪ The old woman's prophecies of disaster were soon fulfilled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again and again, such prophecies dictate and determine his decisions, his attitudes, his course of action.
▪ Finally, there are the prophecies of Alexander's imminent death which were circulating weeks before his death.
▪ For without the women and their connection to the Earth, who would bring forth the prophecies?
▪ His prophecy was now coming true, perhaps even sooner than he would have dreamed.
▪ She had the gift of prophecy, performed many miracles and is known to have mysteriously supplied food for the convent.
▪ Teiresias, the prophet who had brought so many distressful prophecies to the royal family, came to bring still another.
▪ Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcoming Armageddon but many also describe a dire contemporary situation.
▪ When not experiencing visions, ecstasies, or prophecies, he authored Moral Theology and Glories of Ma ry.