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DAY OF RECKONING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does day of reckoning mean?
• DAY OF RECKONING (noun)
The noun DAY OF RECKONING has 2 senses:
1. (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. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
Familiarity information: DAY OF RECKONING used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
crack of doom; Day of Judgement; Day of Judgment; day of reckoning; Doomsday; end of the world; eschaton; Judgement Day; Judgment Day; Last Day; Last Judgement; Last Judgment
Hypernyms ("day of reckoning" is a kind of...):
day (some point or period in time)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An unpleasant or disastrous destiny
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
day of reckoning; doom; doomsday; end of the world
Context example:
that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world
Hypernyms ("day of reckoning" is a kind of...):
destiny; fate (an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future)
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