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English noun: revelation | |||
| 1. | revelation (communication) the speech act of making something evident | ||
| Synonyms | disclosure, revealing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | speech act | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | discovery, discovery, display, divulgement, divulgence, exposure, giveaway, informing, leak, news leak, ratting, singing, tattle, telling | ||
| 2. | revelation (cognition) an enlightening or astonishing disclosure | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | brainstorm, brainwave, insight | ||
| 3. | revelation (communication) communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency | ||
| Synonyms | divine revelation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | informing, making known | ||
| 4. | Revelation (communication) 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 of Saint John the Divine | ||
| Instance hypernym | book | ||
| Part meronym | New Testament | ||
| Domain category members | Four Horsemen | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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