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Anything viewed as a revelation, especially one that is highly significant for the person receiving it; a disclosure. Often used of a realization or revelation that changes a person's goals or style of life.
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One of a numerous class of writings proceeding from Jewish authors between 250 b. c. and 150 a. d., and designed to propagate the Jewish faith or to cheer the hearts of the Jewish people with the promise of deliverance and glory; or proceeding from Christian authors of the opening centuries and designed to portray the future.
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Specifically, the revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament (called Revelation or the Apocalypse).
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the final battle between good and evil, as foreseen in Saint John's Apocalypse; the time when God conquers the powers of evil, attended by cataclysmic cosmic events, and sometimes thought of as the end of the world; an Armageddon.
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Apocalypse is a board game released by Games Workshop in 1980. The game is a re-release of the earlier Gibsons Games publication, Warlord.
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Apocalypse is a futuristic 3D space shoot 'em up game released in 1990 for the Acorn Archimedes written by Gordon J. Key and published by The Fourth Dimension.
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Apocalypse (1974) is the Mahavishnu Orchestra's fourth album.(See 1974 in music.)
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Apocalypse is a videogame for the Play Station games console, developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. The game is a 3D third-person shooter very much in the style of . The player's character is moved using the Dual Shock controller's left stick, and shooting is handled independently by pressing the right stick in a given direction.
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The climactic event in cosmogonic myths, the destruction of the world as it has existed since the creation, often presaging the re-creation of a new cosmos. This motif is sometimes figured as a flood or earthquake or other disaster that marks both an end and a new beginning.
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a prophecy of the end
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a type of religious literature that has to do with the end of the world and the events that will take place before the end comes
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Apocalypse was a heavy metal band active from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. They primarily operated in the UK, Europe and Asia, and was one of the first heavy metal bands to play in the Middle East. They played venues all over Europe and Asia and were somewhat popular, but a disastrous U.S. tour proved to be the beginning of the end.
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