end of the world

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Noun

end of the world (plural ends of the world)

1. Death and destruction of life on Earth, especially human.
2. Destruction of Earth.
3. (idiomatic) Any change that seems catastrophic or devastating.

   You make it sound as though moving house is the end of the world.

Synonyms

• end times

Hypernyms

• endangerment
• extinction

Hyponyms

• doomsday
• judgement day
• Ragnarok
• TEOTWAWKI
• end of the world as we know it

Derived terms

• not the end of the world
• world ending
• world-ending
• world-endingly

Translations

end of the world

• Arabic: نِهَايَةُ الْعَالَم f (nihāyatu l-ʕālam), الْقِيَامَة f (al-qiyāma)
• Azerbaijani: axırzaman, qiyamət
• Bashkir: ахырызаман (axırızaman), ҡиәмәт (qiəmət)
• Belarusian: кане́ц све́ту m (kanjéc svjétu)
• Bulgarian: край на све́та m (kraj na svéta)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: konec světa m
• Esperanto: finiĝo de la mondo
• Estonian: maailmalõpp
• Finnish: maailmanloppu (fi)
• French: fin du monde (fr) f
• German: Ende der Welt n; Weltende (de) n (in religious context)
• Hindi: दुनिया का अंत m (duniyā kā ant)
• Hungarian: világvége (hu)
• Indonesian: akhir zaman (id), kiamat (id)
• Italian: fine del mondo m
• Japanese: 世界の終り (せかいのおわり, sekai no owari), 世界の果て (せかいのはて, sekai no hate), 末つ方 (すえつかた, suetsukata)
• Kazakh: ақырзаман (aqyrzaman), заманақыр (zamanaqyr)
• Korean: 세계의 끝 (segyeui kkeut)
• Macedonian: крај на светот m (kraj na svetot)
• Persian: آخرالزمان (fa) (âxar-oz-zamân), قیامت (fa) (qiyâmat)
• Polish: koniec świata (pl) m
• Portuguese: fim do mundo m
• Romanian: sfârșitul lumii n
• Russian: коне́ц све́та (ru) m (konéc svéta), коне́ц ми́ра m (konéc míra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крај света m, крај свијета m

  Roman: kraj sveta m, kraj svijeta m

• Slovak: koniec sveta m
• Slovene: konec sveta m
• Spanish: fin del mundo m
• Swedish: jordens undergång c
• Tajik: охирзамон (oxirzamon)
• Telugu: యుగాంతము (te) (yugāntamu)
• Turkish: dünyanın sonu, kıyamet (tr)
• Ukrainian: кіне́ць сві́ту m (kinécʹ svítu)
• Urdu: آخِرُ الزَّمان (āxiru z-zamān)
• Uyghur: ئاخىر زامان (axir zaman)
• Uzbek: oxir zamon
• Vietnamese: tận thế (vi)
• Yakan: kiyamat

any change that seems catastrophic or devastating

• Bashkir: ахырызаман (axırızaman)
• Belarusian: кане́ц све́ту m (kanjéc svjétu)
• Bulgarian: край на све́та m (kraj na svéta)
• Finnish: maailmanloppu (fi)
• French: mort d’homme m, fin du monde (fr) m
• German: Weltuntergang (de) m
• Macedonian: крај на светот m (kraj na svetot)
• Polish: koniec świata (pl) m
• Russian: коне́ц све́та (ru) m (konéc svéta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крај света m, крај свијета m

  Roman: kraj sveta m, kraj svijeta m

• Slovak: koniec sveta m
• Slovene: konec sveta m
• Spanish: fin del mundo m
• Swedish: jordens undergång c, hela världen c (literally “the whole world”)
• Turkish: dünyanın sonu
• Ukrainian: кіне́ць сві́ту m (kinécʹ svítu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} heimsendir m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} finimondo (it) m
• Romani: ^{(please verify)} lumako agor, ^{(please verify)} lyumako agor
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} sfârșitul lumii

References

• “the end of the world”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “end of the world”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.