a·poc·a·lypse ( -p k -l ps )n. 1. a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible The Book of Revelation. b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century b.c. to the second century a.d. containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. 2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war. 3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation. [Middle English Apocalipse, from Late Latin Apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, revelation, Apocalypse, from apokaluptein, to uncover : apo-, apo- + kaluptein, to cover; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
apocalypse [əˈpɒkəlɪps]
n
1. a prophetic disclosure or revelation
2. an event of great importance, violence, etc., like the events described in the Apocalypse
[from Late Latin apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein to disclose, from apo- + kaluptein to hide]
Apocalypse [əˈpɒkəlɪps]
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Bible (in the Vulgate and Douay versions of the Bible) the Book of Revelation
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| Noun | 1. |  apocalypse - a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evilcalamity, catastrophe, tragedy, disaster, cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" |
| 2. |  Apocalypse - the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the ApostleFour Horsemen - (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse New Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible |
apocalypse
noun destruction, holocaust, havoc, devastation, carnage, conflagration, cataclysm We live in the shadow of the apocalypse.
white - Christ, red - War, black - Famine, pale - Death
Four horsemen of the Apocalypse
white - Christ, red - War, black - Famine, pale - Death
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