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
Noun
1. the end of the world
2. an event of great destructive violence [Greek apo- away + kaluptein to hide]
apocalyptic adj
Apocalypse
Noun
the Apocalypse Bible the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament
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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 |
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