Armageddon
[,a:mə'gedn]
Definition
(noun.) any catastrophically destructive battle; 'they called the first World War an Armageddon'.
(noun.) (New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world.
Checker: Newman--From WordNet
Definition
n. the great symbolical battlefield of the Apocalypse in which the final struggle between the powers of good and evil is to be fought out.
Typist: Rosa
Examples
- I wish Glowry was choked with her Man of Sin and her Battle of Armageddon, cried the other, and the carriage rolled away over Putney Bridge. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Did he not announce from the platform at Chicago--we stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Craig