doomsday

English

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Etymology

Middle English domes + dai, from Old English dom (“judgment”) + dæg (“day”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈduːmz.deɪ/ X-SAMPA: /"du:mz.deI/

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• Hyphenation: dooms‧day

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; doomsday weapon.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adjective "doomsday"

doomsday bomb Domesday Book

doomsday event doomsday machine

doomsday scenario doomsday weapon

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.

Synonyms

• apocalypse
• Armageddon
• end times
• Final Judgment
• judgement day
• nuclear holocaust
• Ragnarok or Ragnarök

Translations

day when God is expected to judge the world

• Bulgarian: страшният съд (bg) m (strašnijat sǎd)
• Burmese: တရားစီရင်မည့်နေ့ (my) (tăya:siyinmyi.ne.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 末日 (cmn) (mòrì), 世界末日 (cmn) (shìjiè mòrì)

• Czech: soudný den (cs) m
• Finnish: tuomiopäivä (fi)
• French: jour du Jugement dernier (fr) m
• German: Tag des jüngsten Gerichts (de) m
• Hebrew: יום הדין (he) (yom ha'dyn) m
• Indonesian: hari kiamat (id)
• Italian: il giorno del giudizio universale (it) m

• Japanese: ドームズデー (ja) (dōmuzudē)
• Macedonian: суден ден (mk) (súden den) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dommedag (nb) m

  Nynorsk: dommedag (nn) m, domedag (nn) m

• Portuguese: dia do juízo final (pt) m
• Russian: судный день (ru) (súdnyj den') m , день страшного суда (ru) (den' strášnovo sudá) m , (end of the world) конец света (ru) (konéc svéta) m 
• Serbian: sudnji dan m
• Spanish: día del Juicio Final (es) m, apocalipsis (es) m, armagedón (es) m

any day of decisive judgement

• Finnish: tuomiopäivä (fi)
• German: Tag des jüngsten Gerichts
• Macedonian: суден ден (mk) (súden den) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dommedag (nb) m

  Nynorsk: dommedag (nn) m, domedag (nn) m

• Russian: судный день (ru) (súdnyj d'en') m 

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Translations to be checked

• French: jour du Jugement dernier (1-3)
• Icelandic: Dómsdagur