Definitions for Apocalypse

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Apocalypse a·poc·a·lypse

Spelling: [uh-pok-uh-lips]

IPA: /əˈpɒk ə lɪps/

Apocalypse is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 499 anagrams from letters in Apocalypse (aaceloppsy).

Definitions for Apocalypse

noun

1. (initial capital letter) revelation (def 4).
2. any of a class of Jewish or Christian writings that appeared from about 200 b.c. to a.d. 350 and were assumed to make revelations of the ultimate divine purpose.
3. a prophetic revelation, especially concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil.
4. any revelation or prophecy.
5. any universal or widespread destruction or disaster:

Origin of Apocalypse

1125-75; Middle English Late Latin apocalypsis Greek apokálypsis revelation, equivalent to apokalýp(tein) to uncover, reveal (apo- apo- + kalýptein to cover, conceal)

Examples for Apocalypse

All in all, a good week for learning that people you love aren't really dead and also holding off the apocalypse.

And his election would not hasten the Republican apocalypse.

In retrospect, 2009 and 2010 were halcyon days in the Middle East, now that we seem just one horseman short of an apocalypse.

Croly, in his new interpretation of the apocalypse, holds the following language.

Now in sober truth there is a magnificent idea in these monsters of the apocalypse.

Conning people into buying a book to prepare for an "Ebola apocalypse" is not just irresponsible, it's pathetic.

Then comes the purpose of all this apocalypse of Divine magnificence.

It is the prophet's message to his fellow men, the apocalypse of the seer.

He beholds there, an apocalypse of the redemption of the world.

Is the Steven Soderbergh version of apocalypse Now the only thing that can bring you back to film?