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    APOCALYPSE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 Apostleplay

    Synonyms:

    Apocalypse; Book of Revelation; Revelation; Revelation of Saint John the Divine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Instance hypernyms:

    book (a major division of a long written composition)

    Domain member category:

    Four 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)

    Holonyms ("Apocalypse" is a part of...):

    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)

    Derivation:

    apocalyptic (prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evilplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural events

    Hypernyms ("apocalypse" is a kind of...):

    calamity; cataclysm; catastrophe; disaster; tragedy (an event resulting in great loss and misfortune)

    Derivation:

    apocalyptic (of or relating to an apocalypse)

    apocalyptical (prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom)

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