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Definition of Doomsday

1. Noun. (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. Noun. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny. "That's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"

Definition of Doomsday

1. n. A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.

Definition of Doomsday

1. Adjective. Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction. ¹

2. Adjective. Given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity. ¹

3. Adjective. Capable of causing widespread or total destruction; doomsday weapon. ¹

4. Noun. The day when God is expected to judge the world; end times. ¹

5. Noun. judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Doomsday

1. judgment day [n -DAYS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doomsday

doomful doomfully doomier doomiest doomily dooming doomlike dooms doomsaid doomsay

doomsayer doomsayers doomsaying doomsayings doomsays doomsday (current term) doomsday event doomsday weapon doomsdayer doomsdayers

doomsdays doomsman doomsmen doomster doomsters doomwatch doomy doon doona doonas

Literary usage of Doomsday

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Source-book of English History: Leading Documents, Together with by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"(doomsday Rook, II, 78b.) 5o. William I to Gregory VII William I The following letter from the Conqueror to the Pope presents better than any other single ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1873)
"YNK P. FELLOWS, FSS This paper commenced by assuming that the previous suggestions of the author " On a proposed doomsday Book, giving the Value of ..."

3. List of Subject Headings for Use in Dictionary Catalogs by American Library Association, Mary Josephine Briggs (1914)
"... Sea power Dominoes Donatists See also Church history — Early church doomsday book see Domesday book Doors See also Architecture; Gates; Grilles; ..."

4. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"doomsday-Book made. AD 1068. About this time, (October 2d,) doomsday-Book was made, containing an exact survey of all the houses and land in the kingdom, ..."

5. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by William Carew Hazlitt, Thomas Blount (1874)
"At the time of the doomsday survey, the two churches on this manor belonged to the Abbey of St Michael's Mount (in Normandy ?) and were valued at 2os. ..."

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