Götterdämmerung

English Etymology en non en de Götterdämmerung twilight of the gods, which see. Pronunciation en /ˌɡɒtəˈdæməɹʊŋ/ UK en /ˌɡɑtɚˈdæmɚ.ʊŋ/ [ˌɡɑɾɚˈdɛə̯mɚ.ʊŋ] US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-JutishMale-Götterdämmerung.wav US Noun s en Norse mythology The myth of the destruction of the gods in a final battle with the forces of evil; Ragnarök. en by extension Any cataclysmic downfall or momentous, apocalyptic event, especially of a regime or an institution. en 1915 Police!!! Un Peu d'Amour w:Robert W. Chambers https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18515/pg18515-images.html To me a nasturtium by the river brink is more than a simple flower. It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol. It may mean anything, everything—such as sunsets and conflagrations and Götterdämmerungs! 153 After so much music, love, and flowers, she felt benumbed, thunder-struck by this psychedelic Götterdämmerung. en Failure to save East Europe will lead to worldwide meltdown https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/4623525/Failure-to-save-East-Europe-will-lead-to-worldwide-meltdown.html The Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 14 February 2009 If mishandled by the world policy establishment, this debacle is big enough to shatter the fragile banking systems of Western Europe and set off round two of our financial Götterdämmerung. en We’ve Now Entered the Final Phase of the Trump Era The Atlantic Thomas Wright 2020-06-02 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/weve-now-entered-the-final-phase-of-the-trump-era/612508/ We are in the Götterdämmerung now, the final phase of the Trump era. en Charles Bramesco Before Barbenheimer: when major movies are released on the same day The Guardian 2023-07-18 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/18/barbie-oppenheimer-movies-same-release-date-edited--oppenheimer-movies-released-same-day-box-office-greta-gerwig-christopher-nolanbarbie-oppenheimer-movies-same-release-date-edited- 0261-3077 Plenty of fence-sitters have withheld their allegiance by booking a double feature, but the impending cineplex Götterdämmerung still speaks to something fundamental about how and why we pit movies against one another. Further reading German Etymology 18th century, from de Götter gods Dämmerung twilight, a de non ragnarøkkr 1, an attested reinterpretation of non ragnarǫk fate of the gods. Popularised as the name of the last part of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen Ring cycle (1876). Pronunciation de /ˈɡœtərˌdɛmərʊŋ/ [ˈɡœ.tɐˌdɛ.mə.ʁʊŋ] de De-Götterdämmerung.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun f de Norse mythology or figuratively downfall of the gods, en Götterdämmerung, Ragnarok de 1922 Das Bücher-Dekameron w:Kasimir Edschmid https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48040/48040-h/48040-h.htm Die Zeit rollt mit allen ihren Hebeln und Kräften ihre Repräsentanten an die Rampe und es ist nicht die Schuld und nicht das Verdienst ihrer Helden, wenn sie mit dem Weltdonner von Ragnarök in die Götterdämmerung fahren oder im Zuckblitz der Scheinwerfer und zweihundert PS die Ewigkeit suchen. de Stefan Reinecke Lob der biederen Normalität Die Tageszeitung: taz 2022-10-11 https://taz.de/!5883744/ 0931-9085 Die Regierung in Berlin wankt, zumindest ein wenig, der rechte Rand wird stark. Götterdämmerung der Demokratie? Ist es nun so weit? Declension f See also de Götzendämmerung de Ragnarök Further reading de