From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Epiphany \E*piph"a*ny\, noun [F. ['e]piphanie, L. epiphania, Gr. 'epifa'nia (sc. ?), for 'epifa'neia appearance, fr. 'epifai'nein to show forth; 'epi' + fai'nein to show. See {Fancy}.]
1. An appearance, or a becoming manifest.
Whom but just before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount. --Jer. Taylor.
An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. --De Quincey.
2. (Eccl.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a divine manifestation
2: twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus [syn: {Epiphany of Our Lord}, {Twelfth day}, {Three Kings' Day}, {January 6}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "Epiphany": Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "epiphany": Christophany, Satanophany, afflatus, angelophany, apocalypse, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, direct communication, discernibleness, disclosure, dissemination, divine inspiration, divine revelation, embodiment, emergence, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, forthcoming, incarnation, indication, inspiration, issuance, manifestation, materialization, materializing, mystical experience, mysticism, observability, occurrence, opening, outcrop, outcropping, perceptibility, pneumatophany, presentation, proof, prophecy, publication, realization, revelation, rise, rising, seeableness, showing, showing forth, the seen, the visible, theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, unfolding, unfoldment, visibility, visibleness, visuality, what is revealed
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