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REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Revelation of Saint John the Divine mean? 

REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE (noun)
  The noun REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE used as a noun is very rare.


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REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE (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 Apostle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

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

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 ("Revelation of Saint John the Divine" 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)


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