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ARMAGEDDON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any catastrophically destructive battle
Example:
they called the first World War an Armageddon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Armageddon" is a kind of...):
battle; conflict; engagement; fight (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
battlefield; battleground; field; field of battle; field of honor (a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)