REVELATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does Revelation mean?
• REVELATION (noun)
The noun REVELATION has 4 senses:
1. the speech act of making something evident
2. an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
3. communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
4. 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
Familiarity information: REVELATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• REVELATION (noun)
Meaning:
The speech act of making something evident
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
disclosure; revealing; revelation
Hypernyms ("revelation" is a kind of...):
speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revelation"):
leak; news leak (unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information)
informing; ratting (to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors))
giveaway (an unintentional disclosure)
discovery ((law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case)
discovery (something that is discovered)
divulgement; divulgence (the act of disclosing something that was secret or private)
display (behavior that makes your feelings public)
singing; tattle; telling (disclosing information or giving evidence about another)
exposure (the disclosure of something secret)
Meaning:
An enlightening or astonishing disclosure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("revelation" is a kind of...):
brainstorm; brainwave; insight (the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation)
Meaning:
Communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("revelation" is a kind of...):
informing; making known (a speech act that conveys information)
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:
Book of Revelation; Revelation of Saint John the Divine; Apocalypse; Revelation
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" 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)
