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Webster 1913 Edition

Doom

Doom

(doōm)
,
Noun.
[As.
dōm
; akin to OS.
dōm
, OHG.
tuom
, Dan. & Sw.
dom
, Icel.
dōmr
, Goth.
dōms
, Gr.
θέμισ
law; fr. the root of E.
do
, v. t. √65. See
Do
,
Verb.
T.
, and cf.
Deem
,
-dom
.]
1.
Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
The first
dooms
of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
J. R. Green.
Now against himself he sounds this
doom
.
Shakespeare
2.
That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
Ere Hector meets his
doom
.
Pope.
And homely household task shall be her
doom
.
Dryden.
3.
Ruin; death.
This is the day of
doom
for Bassianus.
Shakespeare
4.
Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
[Obs.]
Syn. – Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.

Doom

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Doomed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dooming
.]
1.
To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
[Obs.]
Milton.
2.
To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence;
as, a criminal
doomed
to chains or death
.
Absolves the just, and
dooms
the guilty souls.
Dryden.
3.
To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
Have I tongue to
doom
my brother’s death?
Shakespeare
4.
To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
[New England]
J. Pickering.
5.
To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
A man of genius . . .
doomed
to struggle with difficulties.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition

Doom

DOOM

,
Verb.
T.
[L., to esteem, and perhaps with the root of condemn. See Deem.]
1.
To judge. [Unusual.]
Thou didst not doom so strictly.
2.
To condemn to any punishment; to consign by a decree or sentence; as, the criminal is doomed to chains.
3.
To pronounce sentence or judgment on.
Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
4.
To command authoritatively.
Have I a tongue to doom my brothers death.
5.
To destine; to fix irrevocably the fate or direction of; as, we are doomed to suffer for our sins and errors.
6.
To condemn, or to punish by a penalty.

DOOM

,
Noun.
1.
Judgment; judicial sentence.
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied.
Hence, the final doom is the last judgment.
2.
Condemnation; sentence; decree; determination affecting the fate or future state of another; usually a determination to inflict evil, sometimes otherwise.
Revoke that doom of mercy.
3.
That state to which one is doomed, or destined. To suffer misery is the doom of sinners. To toil for subsistence is the doom of most men.
4.
Ruin; destruction.
From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom.
5.
Discrimination. [Not used.]

Definition 2024

Doom

Doom

See also: doom, dom, Dom, DOM, and -dom

English

Alternative forms

  • DOOM

Proper noun

Doom

  1. (video games) A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre.
    • 1996 May 1, Jeffrey Adam Young, “CyberMage: Darklight Awakening Review”, in Gamespot.com:
      Origin (...) have used the canvas of a Doom-like first-person 3-D engine to paint a master work of their own in this comic-book action game.

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Plautdietsch

Noun

Doom m ‎(plural Dooms)

  1. dome

doom

doom

See also: Doom, dom, Dom, DOM, and -dom

English

Noun

doom ‎(countable and uncountable, plural dooms)

  1. Destiny, especially terrible.
    • Dryden
      Homely household task shall be her doom.
    • 2007, Billy Lee Brammer, “Fustian Days: Book One: Sonic Goddam Boom”, in Southwest Review, volume 92, number 4, page 495:
      "When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his doom.
    • 2009 December 11, Karen Gormandy, “Robin Hood”, in (Please provide the title of the work), volume 59, number 8, page 4:
      "After he takes the throne, you will be arrested." / "You lie like your master, Carfax. Your doom is sealed."
  2. An ill fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
    • 2004, Arthur Miller, “The Turpentine Still”, in Southwest Review, volume 89, number 4, page 479:
      unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.
    • 2007 February, Bob Bahr, “Tapestries in Oil”, in American Artist, volume 71, number 773, page 45:
      Such paintings are inherently moody, and Elliott likes that-even as he carefully avoids dictating a specific mood. "Yesterday I painted the last light of the day-the trees looked pink, and the mountain's shadow was coming over them. It created a feeling of nostalgia... or impending doom... or still, quiet, peacefulness. It depends on the viewer's feelings about the scene, not just mine."
    • 2009 April 27, Nate Davis, “After Lions^ gamble, lots of big men tapped”, in USA Today, Sports, page 7C:
      Chung was the first of its four picks in Round 2. His arrival might spell doom for Rodney Harrison.
  3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
    • 2006, Sophie Jordan, Once upon a wedding night:
      She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest.
    • 2007, Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came on, page 204:
      Feeling doom, as we learned in the beautiful folk language of blacks who knew the truth of it, began with a single unexpected oddity — a redbird out of season, hail out of cloudless skies, dogs cowering under the house
    • 2008, Beverly Fincham, Real Life Freedom, page 25:
      I'm taking medications every day; never thinking I would be spiraling into nothing but a nightmare that made me feel doom.
    • 2009 March, Deanna Roy, “Forget the rules and make the leap”, in Writer, volume 122, number 3, page 15:
      Then the smiling narrator filled me with doom: I was expected to pull my own rip cord. I nearly fainted.
    • 2010 July 20, Mark Morford, “What to do when it all goes right”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
      perhaps you do that most rare of things when reading the news: You grin, exhale, stop feeling doom in every crevasse and corner of your body.
  4. (countable, historical) A law.
    • 1915, Beatrice Adelaide Lees, Alfred the Great: the truth teller, maker of England, 848-899, page 211:
      "What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one doom," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."
  5. (countable, historical) A judgment or decision.
    • Fairfax
      And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
    • 1861, Henry Sumner Maine, Ancient Law, page 22:
      Kings are spoken of as if they had a store of "Themistes" ready to hand for use; but it must be distinctly understood that they are not laws, but judgments, or, to take the exact Teutonic equivalent, "dooms."
    • 1915, Beatrice Adelaide Lees, Alfred the Great: the truth teller, maker of England, 848-899, page 208:
      when Alfred in turn set himself to the task of stating and interpreting the law of his kingdom, there were already precedents for him to follow, in the written "dooms" (domas) of his predecessors, — themselves but a small portion of the still unwritten custom
  6. (countable, historical) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
    • J. R. Green
      The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
    • 1828, John Erskine, An institute of the law of Scotland, page 989:
      Appeals were by our ancient law styled falsing of dooms. They were to be entered immediately after doom or sentence was pronounced,
  7. Death.
    They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
    • Shakespeare
      This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
    • 2009, Anne Kristin Stuart, Tangled lies:
      The engines were rumbling, missing every now and then, and Rachel leaned back in her seat, prepared to meet her doom somewhere over the Pacific. At least there was a priest at hand -- maybe she could entice him to hear a final confession.
  8. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation of it.

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Verb

doom ‎(third-person singular simple present dooms, present participle dooming, simple past and past participle doomed)

  1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
    a criminal doomed to death
    • Dryden
      Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
    • Macaulay
      A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.
  3. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
  4. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
    • Shakespeare
      Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
  5. (archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Pickering to this entry?)

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Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

  1. child, offspring
  2. seed

Etymology

doom

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