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Meaning of Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Four beings in Revelation 6:1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each embodied as a horseman riding a different-colored horse that represents a different aspect of the Apocalypse.
  2. Harbingers of doom; several signs which combine to imply the imminence of literal or figurative destruction.
    idiomatic

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Examples

“At the opening of the New Testament Book of Revelations, the end of the world is heralded by the four horsemen of the apocalypse, symbolising sickness, hunger, war and death.”
“Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,... Here and now those dread specters are: Divorce, Illness, Unemployment and Overspending. These are now the harbingers of economic doom […]”
“[One authority] has identified four types of communication, which he calls the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," that are signs of a marriage having problems […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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