apocalypse
pronunciation
How to pronounce apocalypse in British English:
UK [əˈpɒkəlɪps]
How to pronounce apocalypse in American English:
US [əˈpɑkəlɪps]
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- Noun:
- a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil
Word Origin
- apocalypse
- apocalypse: [13] A ‘catastrophic event, such as the end of the world’ is a relatively recent, 20thcentury development in the meaning of apocalypse. Originally it was an alternative name for the book of the Bible known as the ‘Revelation of St. John the divine’, which describes a vision of the future granted to St John on the island of Patmos. And in fact, the underlying etymological meaning of apocalypse is literally ‘revelation’.It comes, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek apokálupsis, a derivative of the verb apokalúptein ‘uncover, reveal’, which was formed from the prefix apo- ‘away, off’ and the verb kalúptein ‘cover’ (related to English conceal).=> conceal
- apocalypse (n.)
- late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church Latin apocalypsis "revelation," from Greek apokalyptein "uncover, disclose, reveal," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal" (see Calypso). The Christian end-of-the-world story is part of the revelation in John of Patmos' book "Apokalypsis" (a title rendered into English as "Apocalypse" c. 1230 and "Revelations" by Wyclif c. 1380). Its general sense in Middle English was "insight, vision; hallucination;" meaning "a cataclysmic event" is modern. As agent nouns, apocalypst (1829), apocalypt (1834), and apocalyptist (1835) have been tried.
Example
- 1. Point is : there are a lot of places where the apocalypse has already happened .
- 2. Shadows fall across the horsemen of the apocalypse .
- 3. Like director john hillcoat and novelist cormac mccarthy 's similarly crushing the road , children of men 's banal apocalypse is a wake-up call in search of seeking minds .
- 4. For doomsayers , gold has become a particularly potent talisman : a bulwark against the coming apocalypse .
- 5. Europe 's energy commissioner guenther oettinger went further and dubbed the nuclear disaster an " apocalypse " , saying tokyo had almost lost control of events at the fukushima plant .