Götterdämmerung: Meaning and Definition of

Göt•ter•däm•mer•ung

1. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnar&oogon;k, 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.