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FOUR HORSEMEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("Four Horsemen" is a kind of...):
evil (that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune)
Domain category:
Apocalypse; Book of Revelation; Revelation; Revelation of Saint John the Divine (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)
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