doomsday
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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; especially 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.
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doomsday or domesday (ˈduːmzˌdeɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (sometimes capital) the day on which the Last Judgment will occur |
| 2. | any day of reckoning |
| 3. | (modifier) characterized by predictions of disaster: doomsday scenario |
| [Old English dōmes dæg Judgment Day; related to Old Norse domsdagr] | |
| domesday or domesday | |
| —n | |
| [Old English dōmes dæg Judgment Day; related to Old Norse domsdagr] | |
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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.
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Example sentences
Surely, pray observers, she will blink before doomsday arrives.
And it might have been dismissed as nothing more than a few whackos' nutty obsession with doomsday.
Clearly, he has been made irascible by taunts about his doomsday no-shows.
And evangelists and doomsday cults continue to embrace it.
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