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gotterdammerung
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
GötterDÄmmerung - Tribut an die beste Band der Welt (Twilight of the Gods - Tribute album to "the best band in the world" - "DÄ" stand for D Ärzte ) is a tribute album of Die Ärzte songs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ragnarok \Rag"na*rok"\ (r[.a]"n[.a]*r[o^]k"), Ragnarok \Rag"na*r["o]k"\ (r[.a]"n[.a]*r[^u]k"), n. [Icel., fr. regin, r["o]gn, gods + r["o]k reason, origin, history; confused with ragna-r["o]kr the twilight of the gods.] (Norse Myth.) The so-called ``Twilight ...
Usage examples of gotterdammerung.
Now it is probable that some of us will have been so talked by the more superstitious Bayreuth pilgrims into regarding Die Gotterdammerung as the mighty climax to a mighty epic, more Wagnerian than all the other three sections put together, as not to dare notice this startling atavism, especially if we find the trio-conjurations more exhilarating than the metaphysical discourses of Wotan in the three true music dramas of The Ring.
Die Gotterdammerung, though the last of The Ring dramas in order of performance, was the first in order of conception and was indeed the root from which all the others sprang.