Definition of End of the world

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.

Exact synonyms: Crack Of Doom, Day Of Judgement, Day Of Judgment, Day Of Reckoning, Doomsday, Eschaton, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment
Category relationships: New Testament
Generic synonyms: Day

2. Noun. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny. "That's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"
Exact synonyms: Day Of Reckoning, Doom, Doomsday
Generic synonyms: Destiny, Fate
Derivative terms: Doom

Definition of End of the world

1. Noun. End of the planet Earth. ¹

2. Noun. End of habitability for life on Earth. ¹

3. Noun. End of humanity. ¹

4. Noun. (idiomatic) Any change that seems catastrophic or devastating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of End Of The World

end games
end lap
end laps
end line
end man
end mark
end marks
end matter
end of
end of day
end of quote
end of story
end of terrace
end of the line
end of the road
end of the world (current term)
end on
end organ
end oxidation
end pieces
end plate
end plate potential
end point
end product
end product inhibition
end product repression
end quote
end rhyme
end rhymes

Literary usage of End of the world

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

1. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1844)
"... the whole space of time from the fall to the end of the world; and we are now come to The third and last period, beginning with Christ's resurrection, ..."

2. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"The whole time of this period is sometimes in scripture called the end of the world, 1 Cor. x. 11. " Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"It was universally believed that the end of the world and the kingdom of Heaven were at hand. The near approach of this wonderful event had been predicted ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This older idealism teaches, not that there is One-All, but that there is an Alpha and Omega, ie a supermundane Cause and End, of the world ..."

5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1870)
"Our preacher affirms that the notion of the End of the World is a vulgar, ... The scientific End of the World may be contemplated with calmness, because, ..."

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