English

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Conquest, War, Famine & Death (1887) by Victor Vasnetsov

Alternative forms

• Four Horsemen
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Proper noun

the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse pl

1. (biblical) Four beings in Revelation 6:1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each riding a different-colored horse representing a different aspect of the Apocalypse.
2. (idiomatic) Harbingers of doom; several signs which combine to imply the imminence of literal or figurative destruction.
   • 2008, Shayna M. Steinfeld, Bruce R. Steinfeld, The family lawyer's guide to bankruptcy: forms, tips, and strategies, page iii:

     Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,... Here and now those dread specters are: Divorce, Illness, Unemployment and Overspending. These are now the harbingers of economic doom […]

   • 2006, Ronald Brian Adler, Lawrence B. Rosenfeld, Russell F. Proctor, Interplay: the process of interpersonal communication, page 305:

     [One authority] has identified four types of communication, which he calls the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," that are signs of a marriage having problems […]

Coordinate terms

• white rider (Conquest)
• red rider (War)
• black rider (Famine)
• pale rider (Death)

Translations

External links

• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia