{
    "term": "revelation",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a fact that people are made aware of, especially one that has been secret and is surprising",
            "sensetop": "revelation about/concerning somethingrevelation that…",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**startling/sensational revelations** about her private life",
                    "contextForm": "revelation about/concerning something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was dismissed after revelations that confidential files were missing.",
                    "contextForm": "revelation that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The embarrassing revelations came just hours before he was to make his speech."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are no great revelations in the final chapter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "fresh revelations concerning their private lives"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "disclosure",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["amazing", "astonishing", "embarrassing"],
                "verb + revelation": ["come as", "prove"],
                "revelation + verb": ["come"],
                "preposition": [
                    "revelation about",
                    "revelation concerning",
                    "revelation for"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the act of making people aware of something that has been secret",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company's financial problems followed the revelation of a major fraud scandal."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "disclosure"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "something that is considered to be a sign or message from God",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "These events were seen as a divine revelation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He claimed to know these things by divine revelation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He claimed to have had a revelation from God."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["amazing", "astonishing", "embarrassing"],
                "verb + revelation": ["come as", "prove"],
                "revelation + verb": ["come"],
                "preposition": [
                    "revelation about",
                    "revelation concerning",
                    "revelation for"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be a completely new or surprising experience; to be different from what was expected",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His performance in the race today was a revelation to everyone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My trip to Texas was a revelation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His acting ability was a revelation to us all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "To many members of her audience, these performances must have come as a revelation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The demonstration proved to be something of a revelation for our teachers."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌrevəˈleɪʃn/",
                "audio": "re/revelation/revelation__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌrevəˈleɪʃn/",
                "audio": "re/revelation/revelation__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the theological sense): from Old French, or from late Latin revelatio(n-), from revelare ‘lay bare’from re- ‘again’ (expressing reversal) + velum ‘veil’. Senses 1 and 2 date from the mid 19th cent."
}