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Götterdämmerung [got-er-dam-uh-roo ng, -ruhng; German gœt-uh r-dem-uh-roo ng] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.” (italics) See The Ring of the Nibelung. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of Götterdämmerung 1875–80; German, equivalent to Götter, plural of Gott God + Dämmerung twilight Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for gotterdammerung Historical Examples of gotterdammerung
The three gentlemen rotated in the pool breast high, after the fashion of the nymphs in Gotterdammerung.
E. M. Forster
Possibly the “Gotterdammerung,” and even Siegfried’s “Tod,” would pass these people unmarked, like the wind.
George William Curtis
British Dictionary definitions for gotterdammerung Götterdämmerung noun German myth the twilight of the gods; their ultimate destruction in a battle with the forces of evilNorse equivalent: Ragnarök Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for gotterdammerung Gotterdammerung
from German Götterdämmerung, literally “twilight of the gods,” used by Wagner as the title of the last opera in the Ring cycle; used in English from 1909 in the figurative sense of “complete overthrow” of something.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
