abaddon (plural abaddons)

1. (archaic, British slang) An informer; a criminal who informs on other criminals to the authorities.
   • c. 1839, Report of the Trial of the Great Gold Dust Robbery:

     The prisoner, Money Moses, better known among thieves and fences as Moses the abaddon, has been, to my knowledge, for the last twenty years a receiver and dealer in stolen property.

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• (America) IPA: /əˈbæ.dn̩/

1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon; Asmodeus. [First attested from 1350 to 1470]
2. (poetic) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. [Late 17^th century.]
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Fourth”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, page 111 ↗:

     in all her gates Abaddon rues / Thy bold attempt

• German: Abaddon
• Russian: Аваддо́н
• Spanish: Abadón

• German: Abaddon
• Spanish: Abadón