apocalypse

4 definitions • 2 examples

a very serious event resulting in great destruction and change:

The book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.

in the Bible, the total destruction and end of the world

an event resulting in great destruction and violent change:

Nobody was artistically better prepared to deal with the watery apocalypse that followed Hurricane Katrina than this 75-year-old man.

In the Bible, the Apocalypse is the total destruction of the world.