Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.

    Tag des Jüngsten Gerichts, Jüngster Tag, Jüngstes Gericht

    су́дный деньsúdnyj denʹ, день стра́шного суда́denʹ strášnovo sudá, коне́ц све́таkonéc svéta

    су́дний деньsúdnyj denʹ, страшни́й судstrašnýj sud

    (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

  2. (Judaism, capitalized, countable, sometimes, uncountable)Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.

    Tag des Jüngsten Gerichts

    су́дный деньsúdnyj denʹ

  3. (countable, uncountable)Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom is preparing for doomsday.

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  2. Why are so many of his movies about doomsday scenarios?

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  3. Is doomsday on its way?

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  4. The Boring Company is building doomsday bunkers, not underground highways.

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Translations

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Origin

From Middle English domes + dai, from Old English dom (“judgment”) + dæg (“day”). Equivale

From Middle English domes + dai, from Old English dom (“judgment”) + dæg (“day”). Equivalent to doom + -s- + day. Compare Old Norse dómsdagr (“judgement day, doomsday”).

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Forms

plural: doomsdays
Singulardoomsday
Pluraldoomsdays

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

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