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DOOMSDAY

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dooms⋅day

[doomz-dey]
–noun
1. the day of the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
2. any day of judgment or sentence.
3. nuclear destruction of the world.
–adjective
4. given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity; esp. concerned with or predicting future universal destruction: the doomsday issue of all-out nuclear war.
5. capable of causing widespread or total destruction: doomsday weapons.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME domes dai, OE dōmesdæg Judgment Day. See doom, day
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dooms·day   (dōōmz'dā')   
n.  Judgment Day.

[Middle English domesday, from Old English dōmes dæg : dōmes, genitive of dōm, judgment; see doom + dæg, day; see day.]
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Word Origin & History

Doomsday 
O.E. domesdæg, from domes, gen. of dom (see doom) + dæg "day." In medieval England it was expected when the world's age reached 6,000 years from creation, which was thought to have been in 5200 B.C. Bede, c.720, complained of being pestered by rustici asking him how many years till the sixth millennium ended. There is no evidence for a general panic in the year 1000 C.E. Doomsday machine "bomb powerful enough to wipe out human life on earth" is from 1960.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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