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FOUR HORSEMEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Four Horsemen mean? 

FOUR HORSEMEN (noun)
  The noun FOUR HORSEMEN has 1 sense:

1. (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horseplay

  Familiarity information: FOUR HORSEMEN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOUR HORSEMEN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("Four Horsemen" is a kind of...):

evil (that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune)

Domain category:

Apocalypse; Book of Revelation; Revelation; Revelation of Saint John the Divine (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)


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