end of the world

English

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Noun

end of the world

1. death and destruction of life on Earth, especially human
2. (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
• the end of the world as we know it

Derived terms

• world-ending

Related terms

• not the end of the world

Translations

end of the world

• Arabic: نِهَايَة اَلْعَالَم f (nihāyat al-ʿālam)
• Bashkir: ахырызаман (axırızaman)
• 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 (in religious context)
• Hindi: दुनिया का अंत (duniyā kā ant)
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• Hungarian: világvége
• 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)
• Korean: 세계의 끝 (segyeui kkeut)
• Portuguese: fim do mundo m
• Russian: коне́ц све́та (ru) m (konéc svéta)
• Slovak: koniec sveta
• Spanish: fin del mundo m
• Swedish: jordens undergång
• Turkish: Dünya'nın sonu

any change that seems catastrophic or devastating

• Bashkir: ахырызаман (axırızaman)
• Finnish: maailmanloppu (fi)
• German: Weltuntergang (de) m
• Russian: коне́ц све́та (ru) m (konéc svéta)
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• Spanish: fin del mundo m
• Swedish: jordens undergång, hela världen
• Turkish: dünyanın sonu

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Translations to be checked

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

References

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