"Tribulation" meaning in English

See Tribulation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Proprialization from tribulation. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tribulation
  1. (Christian eschatology) (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them. Related terms: trials and tribulations, Apocalypse, end times, Final Judgment, Millennium, Rapture, Revelation, Second Coming
    Sense id: en-Tribulation-en-name-wNS~KWkW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Christianity, Eschatology
{
  "etymology_text": "Proprialization from tribulation.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tribulation",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Christianity",
          "orig": "en:Christianity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Eschatology",
          "orig": "en:Eschatology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them."
      ],
      "id": "en-Tribulation-en-name-wNS~KWkW",
      "links": [
        [
          "persecution",
          "persecution"
        ],
        [
          "Second Coming",
          "Second Coming"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Christian eschatology",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christian eschatology) (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "trials and tribulations"
        },
        {
          "word": "Apocalypse"
        },
        {
          "word": "end times"
        },
        {
          "word": "Final Judgment"
        },
        {
          "word": "Millennium"
        },
        {
          "word": "Rapture"
        },
        {
          "word": "Revelation"
        },
        {
          "word": "Second Coming"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tribulation"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Proprialization from tribulation.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Tribulation",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "trials and tribulations"
    },
    {
      "word": "Apocalypse"
    },
    {
      "word": "end times"
    },
    {
      "word": "Final Judgment"
    },
    {
      "word": "Millennium"
    },
    {
      "word": "Rapture"
    },
    {
      "word": "Revelation"
    },
    {
      "word": "Second Coming"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Christianity",
        "en:Eschatology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "persecution",
          "persecution"
        ],
        [
          "Second Coming",
          "Second Coming"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Christian eschatology",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christian eschatology) (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Tribulation"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Tribulation meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.