From Middle English revelacioun, from Old French revelacion, from Latin revēlātiō, from revēlō ("to disclose"), re ("again") + vēlō ("to cover").

• IPA: /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/

revelation

1. The act of revealing or disclosing.
   • 2007, Paul Zenon, Cool Card Tricks: Techniques for the Advanced Magician, page 58:

     Magicians talk about the revelation at the end of a trick.

2. Something that is revealed.
3. Something dramatically disclosed.
4. (theology) A manifestation of divine truth.
5. Something that turns out to be a great success.

• reveal

• French: révélation
• German: Enthüllung,
• Italian: rivelazione
• Portuguese: revelação
• Russian: открове́ние
• Spanish: revelación, develamiento

• German: Enthüllung, Offenbarung, Erkenntnis
• Portuguese: revelação
• Russian: раскры́тие

• German: Offenbarung
• Italian: rivelazione
• Portuguese: revelação
• Russian: открове́ние
• Spanish: revelación

1. (biblical) The final book of the New Testament of the Bible.

   Synonyms: Rev.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.

• The Apocalypse
• The Apocalypse of John
• The Book of Revelation
• The Revelation of St. John the Divine
• The Revelation to John

• French: Apocalypse, Révélation (especially in New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)
• German: Offenbarung, Offenbarung des Johannes, Apokalypse
• Portuguese: Apocalipse
• Russian: апокалипсис
• Spanish: Apocalipsis, Revelación