armageddon

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armageddon - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Armageddon \Ar`ma*ged"don\ ([aum]r*m[.a]"j[e^]"d'n), n.
     the final, decisive battle between the forces of good and
     evil, as foretold in the Apocolypse of Saint John. Also, the
     site of that battle. Used metaphorically for a vast and
     decisive conflict, attended by cataclysmic destruction.
     [PJC]

armageddon - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Armageddon
      n 1: (New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the
           kings of the Earth at the end of the world
      2: any catastrophically destructive battle; "they called the
         first World War an Armageddon"

armageddon - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Armageddon
  occurs only in Rev. 16:16 (R.V., "Har-Magedon"), as symbolically
  designating the place where the "battle of that great day of God
  Almighty" (ver. 14) shall be fought. The word properly means the
  "mount of Megiddo." It is the scene of the final conflict
  between Christ and Antichrist. The idea of such a scene was
  suggested by the Old Testament great battle-field, the plain of
  Esdraelon (q.v.).