Armageddon

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Armageddon, hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo