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Definition: Epiphany |
EpiphanyNoun1. A divine manifestation. 2. Twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "epiphany" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
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Epiphany was traditionally a Christian feast to celebrate the 'shining forth' or revelation of God to humanity in human form, in the person of Jesus Christ. It included the birth of Jesus Christ; the visit of the three Magi, Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar arrived in Bethlehem; and all of Jesus' childhood events, up to his baptism in the Jordan by John the Baptist. The feast was initially based on, and viewed as a fulfillment of, the Jewish Feast of Lights. This was fixed on January 6, but over time the western churches decided to celebrate Christmas on December 25. The eastern churches continued to treat 6th January as the day marking Jesus's birth. This has given rise in the west to the notion of a twelve day festival, starting on 25th December, and ending on 6th January, called the twelve days of Christmas.
Today in Eastern Orthodox churches, the emphasis at this feast is on the shining forth and revelation of Jesus Christ as the Messiah and second person of the Holy Trinity at the time of his baptism. Usually called the Feast of Theophany, it is one of the great feasts of the liturgical year. An Epiphany is therefore any turning point in a project or scheme, usually for the good. Epiphany can also refer to a web browser for Unix-like systems. See '''Epiphany web browser.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Epiphany."
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Epiphany is a web browser for GNOME, a desktop environment for Unix-compatible operating systems. It is based on Gecko and eliminates XUL-based interfaces for an interface native to the operating system. The latest stable version is 1.0.6.
External Link
- Epiphany Homepage
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Epiphany web browser."
Synonyms: EpiphanySynonyms: Epiphany of Our Lord (n), January 6 (n), Three Kings' Day (n), Twelfth day (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rite | Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Epiphany |
| English words defined with "epiphany": Distaff Day, Distaff's Day ♦ Immovable feasts ♦ Opetide ♦ Twelfth-night, Twelfthtide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "epiphany": Feasts ♦ Marriages. (references) |
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Screenplays | I think you mean an epiphany. (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Epiphany (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Architectural drawing for an Episcopalian nursing home ("Epiphany Church Home"), 1221 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Front perspective. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Log Church of the Epiphany (1787), east view, Oshevensk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | Church of the Epiphany (1684-93), east facade, with decorative ceramic tiles, Yaroslavl, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Epiphany Cathedral (1718-46), northwest view, Irkutsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
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| "The Vatican 4" by Kim Werker Commentary: "The Vatican near Epiphany, January 2003." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Travel | Finland | The national holidays in 2002 are: New Year's Day (January 1); Epiphany (January 6); Good Friday (March 29); Easter (March 31 - April 1); May Day (May 1); Ascension Day (May 9); Mid-Summer (June 22); All Saints' Day (November 2); Independence Day (December 6); Christmas (December 25-26). (references) |
Mexico | Furthermore, many business contacts may be unavailable during the Christmas holiday season, which informally begins around December 16 with the holding of traditional evening "posadas," or festive gatherings for friends, and extends to January 6, the Day of the Epiphany (Twelfth Night, Day of the Three Kings). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Epiphany" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Epiphany" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "epiphany": epiphany of Our Lord. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "epiphany": epiphany-oriented. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "epiphany"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Driekoningefees (Twelfth-night), Driekoninge (Twelfth-night). (various references) | |
Albanian | pagëzim (baptism, baptizing, christening). (various references) | |
Arabic | عيد الغطاس (twelfth day). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | богоявление (twelfth day). (various references) | |
Dutch | Driekoningen (Twelfth-night). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Epifanio (Twelfth-night). (various references) | |
Faeroese | trettandi dagur jóla (Twelfth-night). (various references) | |
Finnish | loppiainen. (various references) | |
French | Epiphanie, fête des rois, épiphanie (epiphyte). (various references) | |
German | Dreikönigsfest (Twelfth-night). (various references) | |
Greek | φώτα (lights), επιφάνεια (surface), θεοφάνεια. (various references) | |
Hebrew | הופעת האל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vízkereszt (twelfth day), háromkirályok napja, epifánia. (various references) | |
Italian | Epifania (Twelfth-night), Befana (Twelfth-night). (various references) | |
Manx | Yn Jeeaghyn, Laa Gymmyrt Ushtey, Laa chebbal Ooashley, Feailley chybbyrt Ushtey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epiphanyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Epifania (after-light). (various references) | |
Romanian | noaptea regilor, boboteazã (twelfth day). (various references) | |
Russian | богоявление. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pojava (advent, appearance, phenomenon), bogojavljenje (twelfth day). (various references) | |
Spanish | epifanía (twelfthday), de epifanía. (various references) | |
Swedish | uppenbarelse (apparition, revelation, vision), trettondagen (Twelfth Day), trettondag (Twelfth-night). (various references) | |
Turkish | epifani, tanrı'nın görünmesi, görünüş (appearance, aspect, face, facet, look, mien, outlook, semblance, sight, spectacle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | водохреще (twelfth day), богоявлення. (various references) | |
Welsh | Ystwyll. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | epiphaneia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Epiphany" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apiphany, eepiphany, empiphany, epephany, ephipany, ephiphany, ephphany, epifany, epiffany, epihany, epipahany, epiphamy, epiphanie, epiphant, epiphanyh, epipharynx, epipheny, epiphiny, epiphony, epithany, eppiphany, epuphany, piphany. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "epiphany" (pronounced i'pi"funē) |
| 5 | -i" f u n ē | polyphony, Tiffany. |
| 4 | -f u n ē | cacophony, Symphony. |
| 3 | -u n ē | accompany, aborigine, agony, balcony, botany, colony, company, destiny, disharmony, larceny, ebony, felony, gluttony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, homogeny, intercompany, intracompany, irony, litany, mahogany, misogyny, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, ontogeny, paleobotany, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, progeny, Saxony, scrutiny, simony, tyranny. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-p-p-y" | |
-2 letters: happen, nappie. | |
-3 letters: happy, hippy, hyena, nappe, nappy, nippy, piney. | |
-4 letters: ayin, epha, haen, heap, hype, nape, neap, nipa, pain, pane, pean, pein, pian, pina, pine, piny, pipe, pipy, pyin, yeah, yean, yipe. | |
-5 letters: ain, ane, ani, any, ape, aye, hae, hap, hay, hen, hep, hey, hie, hin, hip, hyp, nae, nah, nap, nay. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-n-p-p-y" | |
+3 letters: hypercapnia, hypercapnic. | |
+4 letters: hypercapnias, phenotypical. | |
+5 letters: apprehensibly. | |
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