[syn: doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Doomsday \Dooms"day`\, n. [AS. d?mes d[=a]g. See Doom, and
Day.]
1. A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. "My
body's doomsday." --Shak.
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2. The day of the final judgment.
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I could not tell till doomsday. --Chaucer.
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Doomsday Book. See Domesday Book.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Doomsday
n 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 [syn:
Judgment Day, Judgement Day, Day of Judgment, Day of
Judgement, Doomsday, Last Judgment, Last Judgement,
Last Day, eschaton, day of reckoning, doomsday,
crack of doom, end of the world]
2: an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of
the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's
unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world" [syn: doom,
doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world]