LAST DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Last Day mean? 

• LAST DAY (noun)
  The noun LAST DAY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LAST DAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAST DAY (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 ("Last Day" 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)

 Context examples 

By the way, she seems brighter this last day or two.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The last day was a sore trial.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was about the last day of our outward voyage by the largest computation; some time that night, or at latest before noon of the morrow, we should sight the Treasure Island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Last day to Dawson very bad. Shore-ice in all the eddies, mush-ice in the stream. I cannot paddle. The canoe freeze to ice.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You remember that I wrote to Arthur upon that last day.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus the holidays lagged away, until the morning came when Miss Murdstone said: “Here's the last day off!” and gave me the closing cup of tea of the vacation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; and advice of the most important and applicable nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

On the very last day of the regiment's remaining at Meryton, he dined, with other of the officers, at Longbourn; and so little was Elizabeth disposed to part from him in good humour, that on his making some inquiry as to the manner in which her time had passed at Hunsford, she mentioned Colonel Fitzwilliam's and Mr. Darcy's having both spent three weeks at Rosings, and asked him, if he was acquainted with the former.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Poor Sultan, who was lying close by them, heard all that the shepherd and his wife said to one another, and was very much frightened to think tomorrow would be his last day; so in the evening he went to his good friend the wolf, who lived in the wood, and told him all his sorrows, and how his master meant to kill him in the morning.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)