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An apocalypse is an event that causes a tremendous amount of damage, perhaps even so much damage that the world ends. (noun)

Armageddon is an example of an apocalypse.

The Apocalypse is a group of Jewish and Christian writings such as the Book of Revelation, the last book in the Holy Bible, which predict events at the end of the world. (noun)

The Book of Revelation of the New Testament is an example of the Apocalypse.

See apocalypse in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

any of various Jewish and Christian pseudonymous writings (c. 200 -c. 300) depicting symbolically the ultimate destruction of evil and triumph of good
a disclosure regarded as prophetic; revelation
a cataclysmic event, esp. the sudden and violent end of the world
the last book of the New Testament; Revelation

See apocalypse in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(ə-pŏkˈə-lĭpsˌ)

noun

a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible The Book of Revelation.
b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century B.C. to the second century A.D. containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous.
Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.
A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.

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