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Definition of Armageddon

1. Noun. (New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world.

2. Noun. Any catastrophically destructive battle. "They called the first World War an Armageddon"

Definition of Armageddon

1. Proper noun. (Christianity Islam) The site of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil. ¹

2. Proper noun. The scene of a decisive conflict on a great scale. ¹

3. Proper noun. Any great and crucial conflict. ¹

4. Noun. (alternative capitalization of Armageddon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Armageddon

Arkansas elevation Arkansas kingbird Arkansawyer Arkhangelsk Arkite Arleen Arlene Arline Arlington Arlon

Arlt Arlt's operation Armada Armadillidiidae Armadillidium Armageddon (current term) Armaghan Armagnac Armagnacs Armalite

Armalite and the ballot box Armalites Armand Jean du Plessis Armanni-Ebstein change Armanni-Ebstein kidney Armata Corsa Armed Forces Day Armed Islamic Group Armenia Armenia Inferior

Literary usage of Armageddon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Poems Explained: Helps to Reading with the Understanding, with by Waitman Barbe (1909)
"In this poem of Sir Edwin Arnold's, Armageddon with its historic significance is lifted out of the dim past and projected into the future; and "Marching ..."

2. The American Spirit: A Basis for World Democracy by Paul Monroe (1918)
"... Armageddon' SIR EDWIN ARNOLD (1832-1904) Marching down to Armageddon — Brothers, stout and strong! Let us cheer the way we tread on With a soldier's ..."

3. The Last Four Months: How the War was Won by Sir Frederick Maurice (1919)
"... CHAPTER IV Armageddon The Hindenburg Line— The American Battle of the Meuse-Argonne — Gouraud in Champagne — Haig Breaks the Hindenburg Line — King ..."

4. The Economic Foundations of Peace, Or, World-partnership as the Truer Basis by James Louis Garvin (1919)
"In other words, amidst the machinery of this interdependent world, with all the range and delicacy of its system for supply and distribution, Armageddon ..."

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