Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Destiny, especially terrible.

    Schicksal, Verhängnis, Verderben

    рокrok, судьба́sudʹbá, фа́тумfátum

    доляdolja, приреченістьpryrečenistʹ, доляdolja

    an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

  2. (countable, uncountable)An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.

    drohendes Unheil

    предчу́вствиеpredčúvstvije

  4. (countable, uncountable)Death.

    They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.

    Untergang, Tod

    смертьsmertʹ, ги́бельgíbelʹ, кончи́наkončína

    смертьsmertʹ, загибельzahybelʹ

  5. (capitalized, countable, sometimes, uncountable)The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

  6. (countable, obsolete)A law.

    Bann

    Стра́шный судStrášnyj sud, судsud, зако́нzakón

  7. (countable, obsolete)A judgment or decision.

    Urteil, Verbannung

    пригово́рprigovór, реше́ниеrešénije, декре́тdekrét

  8. (countable, obsolete)A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.

    Urteil, Strafe

    пригово́рprigovór

Examples

85 sentences
  1. We are doomed.

    Ми приречені. — deniko

    ruМы обречены. — marafon

    deWir sind verloren. — Vortarulo

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  2. Tom ran back to his doom.

  3. Tom was doomed.

  4. You're all doomed.

    ruВы все обречены. — Wezel

  5. The enterprise was doomed to failure.

    ruПредприятие было обречено на провал. — kukla

    deDas Unternehmen war zum Scheitern verurteilt. — JWeighardt

Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
destiny, especially terrible:
death:
Русский
By meaning 6
destiny, especially terrible:
undesirable fate:
feeling of danger:
obsolete: law:
obsolete: judgment or decision:
death:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
destiny, especially terrible:
feeling of danger:
obsolete: law:
obsolete: judgment or decision:
obsolete: sentence or penalty:
death:

Origin

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germani

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.

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