noun 1.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.”
2.( italics ) the final opera of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung.
Origin: 1875–80; <
German, equivalent to
Götter, plural of
Gott God +
Dämmerung twilight