Usually means: Catastrophic end of the world.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Apocalypse, apocalypse, the apocalypse: Merriam-Webster
  2. apocalypse, the Apocalypse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apocalypse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apocalypse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Apocalypse, apocalypse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apocalypse, apocalypse: Wordnik
  7. apocalypse, the Apocalypse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Apocalypse, apocalypse: Wiktionary
  9. apocalypse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apocalypse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apocalypse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Apocalypse: Dictionary.com
  13. apocalypse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. apocalypse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Apocalypse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. apocalypse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. apocalypse: Rhymezone
  19. apocalypse, apocalypse (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. apocalypse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. apocalypse: FreeDictionary.org
  22. apocalypse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. The Apocalypse, apocalypse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. apocalypse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. apocalypse: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Apocalypse, The Apocalypse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. apocalypse: A Word A Day

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Apocalypse: Easton Bible
  2. Apocalypse: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See apocalypses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A revelation, especially of supernatural events.
noun:  (Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
noun:  (Christianity) The Book of Revelation.
noun:  A disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin.
noun:  (countable, biblical) The written account of a revelation of hidden things given by God to a chosen prophet.
noun:  (Christianity) Revelation (last book of the Bible, composed of twenty-two chapters, which narrates the end of times)

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