DOOMSDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Doomsday mean? 

• DOOMSDAY (noun)
  The noun DOOMSDAY 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: DOOMSDAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOOMSDAY (noun)

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 ("Doomsday" 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 ("doomsday" is a kind of...):

destiny; fate (an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future)

 Context examples 

I told him if he waited for that, he would have to wait till doomsday.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)