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REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE
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I. (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
Synonyms:
Apocalypse; Book of Revelation; Revelation; Revelation of Saint John the Divine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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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