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Webster 1913 Edition


Doomsday

Dooms′dayˊ

,
Noun.
[AS.
d[GREEK]mes dāg
. See
Doom
, and
Day
.]
1.
A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
“My body’s doomsday.”
Shak.
2.
The day of the final judgment.
I could not tell till
doomsday
.
Chaucer.
Doomsday Book
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Doomsday

DOOMSDAY

,
Noun.
[doom and day.]
1.
The day of the final judgment; the great day when all men are to be judged and consigned to endless happiness or misery.
2.
The day of sentence or condemnation.

Definition 2024


doomsday

doomsday

English

Adjective

doomsday (not comparable)

  1. Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction.
  2. Given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity.
  3. Capable of causing widespread or total destruction.

Derived terms

Noun

doomsday (plural doomsdays)

  1. The day when God is expected to judge the world; end times.
  2. judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.

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