Definition of epiphany in English:

epiphany

nounPlural epiphanies ɪˈpɪf(ə)niɛˈpɪf(ə)niəˈpɪfəni

1The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12).
（耶稣基督给以东方三博士代表的非犹太人的）耶稣显现
Example sentencesExamples
- The account of the magi is celebrated as an epiphany of our Lord.
- The story of Epiphany is related by the first three Evangelists: Matthew, Mark and Luke.
1. 1.1 The festival commemorating the Epiphany on 6 January.
  显现节（1月6日）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Church defines Christmas as the twelve days from Christmas Day until the eve of Epiphany.
  The nativity scene remains in its place until January 6, the Epiphany (the twelfth night after Christmas).
  On January the 6th they have another special celebration called the Epiphany.
  Catholics honor Three Kings Day on January 6, the feast of the Epiphany.
  Tomorrow is a Holy Day, The Feast of the Epiphany when there will be Masses at 11 am and 7.30 pm.
  The pope, who personally administers each of the church's seven sacraments during the course of each year, makes a practice of consecrating bishops on Epiphany.
  It's an important date in the Catholic calendar, the Feast of the Epiphany, the day for celebrating the meeting between Christ and the Magi.
  The journey from Epiphany to Lent brings us from the brightness of our dawning to the bleakness of our sinfulness.
  We Christians need Epiphany to complete our Christmas lesson.
  The Christmas season in France comes to an end on Epiphany when we commemorate the coming of the three kings to Bethlehem.
  On Epiphany morning, the Lutheran-Episcopal full communion will be rendered official and celebrated at Washington's National Cathedral.
  The Church celebrates 6 January as Epiphany, the day on which the Christ child was shown to the three Kings.
  Christians will be praying around the world during both Advent and Epiphany.
  In Izalco, the period between Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated with nightly processions and Jeu Jeu, an Amerindian rain dance.
  Tomorrow's feast of the Epiphany, or Little Christmas, is still a huge, well-celebrated event from Berlin to Barcelona.
  The Greater Blessing of Water is performed on the Feast of the Epiphany (in the Julian calendar, January 19).
  For Epiphany on January 6, a large round pastry is baked with a bean hidden in it.
  In the past, the Roman Catholic Church required numerous fasts, including all Sundays during Lent, Easter week, and all Fridays except from Christmas to Epiphany and from Easter to Ascension.
  An indispensable part of any sermon on this Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany is the preacher's passing on the experiences of Christ's death and resurrection that this assembly has received.
  The twelfth day of Christmas, 6 January, Epiphany day, is the day that Christians believe that the three wise men presented their gifts to the new born Christ.
2. 1.2 A manifestation of a divine or supernatural being.
  神灵的显现
2A moment of sudden and great revelation or realization.
顿悟的时刻；大开眼界的时刻
Example sentencesExamples
- In a sudden epiphany, he had remembered that he still had Krillir's guns, silver weapons with eagles engraved on the handles.
- Interspersed between such piercing points of pain and disappointment are moments of epiphany.
- Tom was staring at Simon and had a moment of epiphany.
- I had a sudden epiphany, and slipped my hands nonchalantly into my pockets.
- There is a crisis and a tragedy, enlightenment and epiphany.
- I think I expected all of us to be hit by a bombardment of epiphanies that would forever change our perspective on things.
- It was a moment of epiphany in the magic midsummer twilight.
- Then Walker stopped for a second, and in that instant, it was as if he experienced a moment of epiphany.
- Growing up on a farm, Greco never saw live dance until he was in his teens, although he recalls a moment of epiphany at the age of six when he knew he wanted to dance.
- ‘Students are experiencing lots of epiphanies during this process,’ he continued.
- My grandmother's death was like an epiphany for me.
- As the park keeper loomed towards me to say, with a note of pity, that he was going to have to lock up in a minute, I had a moment of epiphany: things did not have to be like this.
- There are small epiphanies to be had, sudden revelations of the true nature of our place on the wheel of things.
- Almost everyone in recovery has an story of an epiphany, the moment they knew they needed to stop using.
- And then you experience some form of traumatic epiphany, and change all those opinions.
- Then, as if we all have an epiphany at the same moment, we simultaneously yell out.
- Then one day I had an epiphany and realized that you can go around in a bad mood all of the time, but it won't do any good.
- A little epiphany happened to me while riding home in the rain tonight.
- He speaks with the zeal of someone who has undergone a political epiphany.
- But I have to believe my epiphany was the decisive moment in my adult life.

Derivatives

epiphanic

adjective ɛpɪˈfanɪk

Quite simply put, a holy place, as a place in which an epiphanic event happens, is holy insofar as the breath or Spirit that gives witness to our spirit is there to consecrate it - and we call it ‘spiritual presence.’
Example sentencesExamples
- On the whole, it seems a good idea to be silent about the transcendent and epiphanic dimensions of life because they cannot actually be spoken about.
- In an epiphanic moment, the heroine, already skeptical of Raj, discovers him in bed with the maidservant only days before the marriage.
- Since the publication of her first novel, she has returned in her fiction to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space.
- But, as you've both pointed out, it can be difficult - almost impossible - to describe and evoke the epiphanic moment of gnosis.

Origin

Middle English: from Greek epiphainein 'reveal'. The sense relating to the Christian festival is via Old French epiphanie and ecclesiastical Latin epiphania.

Epiphany is the festival commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi or the three wise men who brought gifts to the infant Jesus. It is from Greek epiphainein ‘reveal’. An alternative Greek name for the festival is Theophania ‘divine revelation’, which lies behind the personal name Tiffany, originally given to girls born at the festival.

Rhymes

antiphony, polyphony, tiffany

Definition of epiphany in US English:

epiphany

(also Epiphany)

nounəˈpifənēəˈpɪfəni

1The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12).
（耶稣基督给以东方三博士代表的非犹太人的）耶稣显现
Example sentencesExamples
- The story of Epiphany is related by the first three Evangelists: Matthew, Mark and Luke.
- The account of the magi is celebrated as an epiphany of our Lord.
1. 1.1 The festival commemorating the Epiphany on January 6.
  显现节（1月6日）
  Example sentencesExamples
  For Epiphany on January 6, a large round pastry is baked with a bean hidden in it.
  Tomorrow is a Holy Day, The Feast of the Epiphany when there will be Masses at 11 am and 7.30 pm.
  Catholics honor Three Kings Day on January 6, the feast of the Epiphany.
  We Christians need Epiphany to complete our Christmas lesson.
  The Greater Blessing of Water is performed on the Feast of the Epiphany (in the Julian calendar, January 19).
  The Church celebrates 6 January as Epiphany, the day on which the Christ child was shown to the three Kings.
  On Epiphany morning, the Lutheran-Episcopal full communion will be rendered official and celebrated at Washington's National Cathedral.
  On January the 6th they have another special celebration called the Epiphany.
  The nativity scene remains in its place until January 6, the Epiphany (the twelfth night after Christmas).
  Tomorrow's feast of the Epiphany, or Little Christmas, is still a huge, well-celebrated event from Berlin to Barcelona.
  The pope, who personally administers each of the church's seven sacraments during the course of each year, makes a practice of consecrating bishops on Epiphany.
  The twelfth day of Christmas, 6 January, Epiphany day, is the day that Christians believe that the three wise men presented their gifts to the new born Christ.
  The Church defines Christmas as the twelve days from Christmas Day until the eve of Epiphany.
  The Christmas season in France comes to an end on Epiphany when we commemorate the coming of the three kings to Bethlehem.
  In the past, the Roman Catholic Church required numerous fasts, including all Sundays during Lent, Easter week, and all Fridays except from Christmas to Epiphany and from Easter to Ascension.
  It's an important date in the Catholic calendar, the Feast of the Epiphany, the day for celebrating the meeting between Christ and the Magi.
  The journey from Epiphany to Lent brings us from the brightness of our dawning to the bleakness of our sinfulness.
  Christians will be praying around the world during both Advent and Epiphany.
  In Izalco, the period between Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated with nightly processions and Jeu Jeu, an Amerindian rain dance.
  An indispensable part of any sermon on this Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany is the preacher's passing on the experiences of Christ's death and resurrection that this assembly has received.
2. 1.2 A manifestation of a divine or supernatural being.
  神灵的显现
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Gita describes the epiphany of Vishnu as brighter than a thousand suns.
  The owl is a symbol: an epiphany of Athena (goddess of wisdom.
  A priestess of Artemis turned away an enemy attack with the help of an epiphany of the goddess herself.
  The phrase "Pillar of Fire" alludes to Exodus 13:21, which describes an epiphany of Jehovah leading the nation of Israel to freedom from Egyptian bondage.
  This encounter with God in the form of a Child is an epiphany of God's goodness and loving kindness for humanity.
3. 1.3 A moment of sudden revelation or insight.
  顿悟的时刻；大开眼界的时刻
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was a moment of epiphany in the magic midsummer twilight.
  Interspersed between such piercing points of pain and disappointment are moments of epiphany.
  There is a crisis and a tragedy, enlightenment and epiphany.
  I think I expected all of us to be hit by a bombardment of epiphanies that would forever change our perspective on things.
  My grandmother's death was like an epiphany for me.
  Then one day I had an epiphany and realized that you can go around in a bad mood all of the time, but it won't do any good.
  Growing up on a farm, Greco never saw live dance until he was in his teens, although he recalls a moment of epiphany at the age of six when he knew he wanted to dance.
  In a sudden epiphany, he had remembered that he still had Krillir's guns, silver weapons with eagles engraved on the handles.
  And then you experience some form of traumatic epiphany, and change all those opinions.
  He speaks with the zeal of someone who has undergone a political epiphany.
  A little epiphany happened to me while riding home in the rain tonight.
  As the park keeper loomed towards me to say, with a note of pity, that he was going to have to lock up in a minute, I had a moment of epiphany: things did not have to be like this.
  Almost everyone in recovery has an story of an epiphany, the moment they knew they needed to stop using.
  There are small epiphanies to be had, sudden revelations of the true nature of our place on the wheel of things.
  ‘Students are experiencing lots of epiphanies during this process,’ he continued.
  Tom was staring at Simon and had a moment of epiphany.
  Then Walker stopped for a second, and in that instant, it was as if he experienced a moment of epiphany.
  I had a sudden epiphany, and slipped my hands nonchalantly into my pockets.
  Then, as if we all have an epiphany at the same moment, we simultaneously yell out.
  But I have to believe my epiphany was the decisive moment in my adult life.

Origin

Middle English: from Greek epiphainein ‘reveal’. The sense relating to the Christian festival is via Old French epiphanie and ecclesiastical Latin epiphania.

词汇	epiphany
释义	Definition of epiphany in English: epiphany nounPlural epiphanies ɪˈpɪf(ə)niɛˈpɪf(ə)niəˈpɪfəni 1The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12). （耶稣基督给以东方三博士代表的非犹太人的）耶稣显现 Example sentencesExamples The account of the magi is celebrated as an epiphany of our Lord. The story of Epiphany is related by the first three Evangelists: Matthew, Mark and Luke. 1.1 The festival commemorating the Epiphany on 6 January. 显现节（1月6日） Example sentencesExamples The Church defines Christmas as the twelve days from Christmas Day until the eve of Epiphany. The nativity scene remains in its place until January 6, the Epiphany (the twelfth night after Christmas). On January the 6th they have another special celebration called the Epiphany. Catholics honor Three Kings Day on January 6, the feast of the Epiphany. Tomorrow is a Holy Day, The Feast of the Epiphany when there will be Masses at 11 am and 7.30 pm. The pope, who personally administers each of the church's seven sacraments during the course of each year, makes a practice of consecrating bishops on Epiphany. It's an important date in the Catholic calendar, the Feast of the Epiphany, the day for celebrating the meeting between Christ and the Magi. The journey from Epiphany to Lent brings us from the brightness of our dawning to the bleakness of our sinfulness. We Christians need Epiphany to complete our Christmas lesson. The Christmas season in France comes to an end on Epiphany when we commemorate the coming of the three kings to Bethlehem. On Epiphany morning, the Lutheran-Episcopal full communion will be rendered official and celebrated at Washington's National Cathedral. The Church celebrates 6 January as Epiphany, the day on which the Christ child was shown to the three Kings. Christians will be praying around the world during both Advent and Epiphany. In Izalco, the period between Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated with nightly processions and Jeu Jeu, an Amerindian rain dance. Tomorrow's feast of the Epiphany, or Little Christmas, is still a huge, well-celebrated event from Berlin to Barcelona. The Greater Blessing of Water is performed on the Feast of the Epiphany (in the Julian calendar, January 19). For Epiphany on January 6, a large round pastry is baked with a bean hidden in it. In the past, the Roman Catholic Church required numerous fasts, including all Sundays during Lent, Easter week, and all Fridays except from Christmas to Epiphany and from Easter to Ascension. An indispensable part of any sermon on this Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany is the preacher's passing on the experiences of Christ's death and resurrection that this assembly has received. The twelfth day of Christmas, 6 January, Epiphany day, is the day that Christians believe that the three wise men presented their gifts to the new born Christ. 1.2 A manifestation of a divine or supernatural being. 神灵的显现 2A moment of sudden and great revelation or realization. 顿悟的时刻；大开眼界的时刻 Example sentencesExamples In a sudden epiphany, he had remembered that he still had Krillir's guns, silver weapons with eagles engraved on the handles. Interspersed between such piercing points of pain and disappointment are moments of epiphany. Tom was staring at Simon and had a moment of epiphany. I had a sudden epiphany, and slipped my hands nonchalantly into my pockets. There is a crisis and a tragedy, enlightenment and epiphany. I think I expected all of us to be hit by a bombardment of epiphanies that would forever change our perspective on things. It was a moment of epiphany in the magic midsummer twilight. Then Walker stopped for a second, and in that instant, it was as if he experienced a moment of epiphany. Growing up on a farm, Greco never saw live dance until he was in his teens, although he recalls a moment of epiphany at the age of six when he knew he wanted to dance. ‘Students are experiencing lots of epiphanies during this process,’ he continued. My grandmother's death was like an epiphany for me. As the park keeper loomed towards me to say, with a note of pity, that he was going to have to lock up in a minute, I had a moment of epiphany: things did not have to be like this. There are small epiphanies to be had, sudden revelations of the true nature of our place on the wheel of things. Almost everyone in recovery has an story of an epiphany, the moment they knew they needed to stop using. And then you experience some form of traumatic epiphany, and change all those opinions. Then, as if we all have an epiphany at the same moment, we simultaneously yell out. Then one day I had an epiphany and realized that you can go around in a bad mood all of the time, but it won't do any good. A little epiphany happened to me while riding home in the rain tonight. He speaks with the zeal of someone who has undergone a political epiphany. But I have to believe my epiphany was the decisive moment in my adult life. Derivatives epiphanic adjective ɛpɪˈfanɪk Quite simply put, a holy place, as a place in which an epiphanic event happens, is holy insofar as the breath or Spirit that gives witness to our spirit is there to consecrate it - and we call it ‘spiritual presence.’ Example sentencesExamples On the whole, it seems a good idea to be silent about the transcendent and epiphanic dimensions of life because they cannot actually be spoken about. In an epiphanic moment, the heroine, already skeptical of Raj, discovers him in bed with the maidservant only days before the marriage. Since the publication of her first novel, she has returned in her fiction to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space. But, as you've both pointed out, it can be difficult - almost impossible - to describe and evoke the epiphanic moment of gnosis. Origin Middle English: from Greek epiphainein 'reveal'. The sense relating to the Christian festival is via Old French epiphanie and ecclesiastical Latin epiphania. Epiphany is the festival commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi or the three wise men who brought gifts to the infant Jesus. It is from Greek epiphainein ‘reveal’. An alternative Greek name for the festival is Theophania ‘divine revelation’, which lies behind the personal name Tiffany, originally given to girls born at the festival. Rhymes antiphony, polyphony, tiffany Definition of epiphany in US English: epiphany (also Epiphany) nounəˈpifənēəˈpɪfəni 1The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12). （耶稣基督给以东方三博士代表的非犹太人的）耶稣显现 Example sentencesExamples The story of Epiphany is related by the first three Evangelists: Matthew, Mark and Luke. The account of the magi is celebrated as an epiphany of our Lord. 1.1 The festival commemorating the Epiphany on January 6. 显现节（1月6日） Example sentencesExamples For Epiphany on January 6, a large round pastry is baked with a bean hidden in it. Tomorrow is a Holy Day, The Feast of the Epiphany when there will be Masses at 11 am and 7.30 pm. Catholics honor Three Kings Day on January 6, the feast of the Epiphany. We Christians need Epiphany to complete our Christmas lesson. The Greater Blessing of Water is performed on the Feast of the Epiphany (in the Julian calendar, January 19). The Church celebrates 6 January as Epiphany, the day on which the Christ child was shown to the three Kings. On Epiphany morning, the Lutheran-Episcopal full communion will be rendered official and celebrated at Washington's National Cathedral. On January the 6th they have another special celebration called the Epiphany. The nativity scene remains in its place until January 6, the Epiphany (the twelfth night after Christmas). Tomorrow's feast of the Epiphany, or Little Christmas, is still a huge, well-celebrated event from Berlin to Barcelona. The pope, who personally administers each of the church's seven sacraments during the course of each year, makes a practice of consecrating bishops on Epiphany. The twelfth day of Christmas, 6 January, Epiphany day, is the day that Christians believe that the three wise men presented their gifts to the new born Christ. The Church defines Christmas as the twelve days from Christmas Day until the eve of Epiphany. The Christmas season in France comes to an end on Epiphany when we commemorate the coming of the three kings to Bethlehem. In the past, the Roman Catholic Church required numerous fasts, including all Sundays during Lent, Easter week, and all Fridays except from Christmas to Epiphany and from Easter to Ascension. It's an important date in the Catholic calendar, the Feast of the Epiphany, the day for celebrating the meeting between Christ and the Magi. The journey from Epiphany to Lent brings us from the brightness of our dawning to the bleakness of our sinfulness. Christians will be praying around the world during both Advent and Epiphany. In Izalco, the period between Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated with nightly processions and Jeu Jeu, an Amerindian rain dance. An indispensable part of any sermon on this Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany is the preacher's passing on the experiences of Christ's death and resurrection that this assembly has received. 1.2 A manifestation of a divine or supernatural being. 神灵的显现 Example sentencesExamples The Gita describes the epiphany of Vishnu as brighter than a thousand suns. The owl is a symbol: an epiphany of Athena (goddess of wisdom. A priestess of Artemis turned away an enemy attack with the help of an epiphany of the goddess herself. The phrase "Pillar of Fire" alludes to Exodus 13:21, which describes an epiphany of Jehovah leading the nation of Israel to freedom from Egyptian bondage. This encounter with God in the form of a Child is an epiphany of God's goodness and loving kindness for humanity. 1.3 A moment of sudden revelation or insight. 顿悟的时刻；大开眼界的时刻 Example sentencesExamples It was a moment of epiphany in the magic midsummer twilight. Interspersed between such piercing points of pain and disappointment are moments of epiphany. There is a crisis and a tragedy, enlightenment and epiphany. I think I expected all of us to be hit by a bombardment of epiphanies that would forever change our perspective on things. My grandmother's death was like an epiphany for me. Then one day I had an epiphany and realized that you can go around in a bad mood all of the time, but it won't do any good. Growing up on a farm, Greco never saw live dance until he was in his teens, although he recalls a moment of epiphany at the age of six when he knew he wanted to dance. In a sudden epiphany, he had remembered that he still had Krillir's guns, silver weapons with eagles engraved on the handles. And then you experience some form of traumatic epiphany, and change all those opinions. He speaks with the zeal of someone who has undergone a political epiphany. A little epiphany happened to me while riding home in the rain tonight. As the park keeper loomed towards me to say, with a note of pity, that he was going to have to lock up in a minute, I had a moment of epiphany: things did not have to be like this. Almost everyone in recovery has an story of an epiphany, the moment they knew they needed to stop using. There are small epiphanies to be had, sudden revelations of the true nature of our place on the wheel of things. ‘Students are experiencing lots of epiphanies during this process,’ he continued. Tom was staring at Simon and had a moment of epiphany. Then Walker stopped for a second, and in that instant, it was as if he experienced a moment of epiphany. I had a sudden epiphany, and slipped my hands nonchalantly into my pockets. Then, as if we all have an epiphany at the same moment, we simultaneously yell out. But I have to believe my epiphany was the decisive moment in my adult life. Origin Middle English: from Greek epiphainein ‘reveal’. The sense relating to the Christian festival is via Old French epiphanie and ecclesiastical Latin epiphania.
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