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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make known (something concealed or secret): revealed a confidence.
  2. v. To bring to view; show.
  3. v. To make known by supernatural or divine means: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven” ( Romans 1:18).
  4. n. The part of the side of a window or door opening that is between the outer surface of a wall and the window or door frame.
  5. n. The whole side of such an opening; the jamb.
  6. n. The framework of a motor vehicle window.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To discover; expose to sight, recognition, or understanding; disclose; divulge; make known.
  2. Specifically To disclose as religious truth; divulge by supernatural means; make known by divine agency.
  3. In metaphysics, to afford an immediate knowledge of.
  4. Synonyms To unveil, uncover, communicate, show, impart.
  5. n. A revealing; disclosure.
  6. n. In architecture, one of the vertical faces of a window-opening or a doorway, included between the face of the wall and that of the window- or door-frame, when such frame is present.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
  2. n. cinematography, comedy A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
  3. n. obsolete The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.
  4. v. transitive To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
  5. v. transitive To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
  2. v. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).
  3. n. obsolete A revealing; a disclosure.
  4. n. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make visible
  2. v. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
  3. v. disclose directly or through prophets

Etymologies

  1. From French révéler, from earlier Latin revelare ("to reveal, uncover"), from re- ("back, again") + velare ("to cover"), from velum ("veil"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English revelen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre : re-, re- + vēlāre, to cover (from vēlum, veil).From Middle English revalen, to lower, from Old French revaler : re-, re- + avaler, to lower (from a val, down : a, to from Latin ad; see ad- + val, valley; see vale1). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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