Definitions for Epiphany

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Epiphany e·piph·a·ny

Spelling: [ih-pif-uh-nee]

IPA: /ɪˈpɪf ə ni/

Epiphany is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in Epiphany (aehinppy).

Definitions for Epiphany

noun

1. (initial capital letter) a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day.
2. an appearance or manifestation, especially of a deity.
3. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
4. a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight.

Origin of Epiphany

1275-1325; Middle English epiphanie Late Latin epiphanīa Late Greek epipháneia, Greek: apparition, equivalent to epi- epi- + phan- (stem of phaínein to appear) + -eia

Examples for Epiphany

I should say I did remember that epiphany supper during the war!

The rest will to Dax when the prince starts, which will be before the feast of the epiphany.

While watching The Ten Commandments on TV with their children for the umpteenth time, Burnett and Downey had an epiphany.

That was the epiphany I had Sunday night during a 10-hour stay at a roadside hotel.

This was an epiphany, this was imprinted on you, you could do anything now.

Well, this year, at epiphany, it had been snowing for a week.

We witnessed a very gorgeous procession on the feast of the epiphany.

The Collect for the first Sunday after epiphany is wonderful.

The teenager went to rehab, and then went right back to using—until he had an epiphany.

Zaks experienced an epiphany of sorts a couple years ago, when he was looking through a book of Tony Walton illustrations.