Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The destroyer: a name given (only in Rev. ix. 11) to the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun The destroying angel of the underworld, the undoer or disintegrator .

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek Ἀπολλύων ("Apollyon, the destroyer"), from ἀπόλλυμι ("destroy")

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