Armageddon

See also: armageddon

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A nuclear holocaust is sometimes associated with modern visualizations of Armageddon

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew הר מגידו \ ‎הַר‎ מְגִדּוֹ ‎(har megiddo), used in Revelation 16:16, referring to Mount Megiddo, the place of the last battle at the Last Judgment.

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɛdən
• Hyphenation: Ar‧ma‧ged‧don

Proper nounEdit

Armageddon

1. (Christianity, Islam) The site of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil.
2. (by extension) The battle itself.

SynonymsEdit

• Apocalypse, Final Judgment

Coordinate termsEdit

• Ragnarok (Norse mythology)
• day of reckoning, doomsday, judgement day, end times, end of the world

Derived termsEdit

• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

TranslationsEdit

The place where the final battle will be fought between the forces of good and evil

• Arabic: أَرْمَجِدُون m ‎(ʾarmajidūn), أَرْمَجِدُون m ‎(ʾarmagidūn)
• Catalan: Harmagedon m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈米吉多頓 (zh), 哈米吉多顿 (zh) ‎(Hāmǐjíduōdùn)

• Danish: Armageddon
• Finnish: Harmageddonin taistelu
• French: Armageddon (fr) m
• Friulian: Armageddon m
• German: Harmagedon n
• Greek: Αρμαγεδδώνας (el) m ‎(Armageddónas)
• Icelandic: Harmagedón n
• Indonesian: Harmagedon
• Italian: Armaghedòn m

• Japanese: ハルマゲドン ‎(Harumagedon), アルマゲドン ‎(Arumagedon)
• Korean: 아마겟돈 ‎(Amagetdon)
• Kurdish: Harmegedon
• Norwegian: Harmageddon
• Persian: آرماگدون (fa) ‎(ârmagedon)
• Polish: Har-Magedon m
• Portuguese: Armagedão (pt) m
• Russian: Армагеддо́н (ru) m ‎(Armageddón)
• Spanish: Armagedón m
• Swedish: Harmagedon
• Ukrainian: Армагеддон m ‎(Armaheddón, Armageddón)
• Welsh: Armagedon

the final battle