Meaning of Apocalypse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events.
2. The written account of a revelation of hidden things given by God to a chosen prophet.
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3. A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale.
4. Revelation (last book of the Bible, composed of twenty-two chapters, which narrates a vision of the end times).
5. Armageddon: the destructive end of the world.
6. The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
7. The Book of Revelation.

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Examples

“The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.”

“Near-synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, holocaust; armageddon, doomsday, end times, eschaton, judgement day, judgment day”

“A nuclear apocalypse would have been possible if tensions went out of control during the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

“Man has forgotten the soul and thus doomed his civilization to apocalypse.”

“The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse.”

“In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word apokálypsis, meaning “unveiling”, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025.”

“Meronyms: Final Judgment, Judgment Day, judgement day, judgment day”

“Near-synonym: Ragnarok”

“Apocalypses of Adam and Abraham (Epiphanius) and of Elias (Jerome) are also mentioned.”

“He's been reading the Apocalypse again, and doomscrolling social media content that fixates on it.”

“They keep predicting that the Apocalypse is nigh, but I notice that they have books and supplies that they're trying to sell.”

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