armageddon.

1. A conflict or disaster imagined as overwhelmingly destructive or world-ending.

2. The place named in Revelation where kings are gathered for the final conflict.

3. The final conflict associated with the biblical Armageddon or an analogous ultimate battle.

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Words that belong together

• nuclear armageddon
• avert armageddon

On the page

The broadcast spoke of armageddon while the technician kept counting the remaining shelters.

He feared an armageddon of their own making, not the prophecy in the book.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular armageddon; plural armageddons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.