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dooms·day
(do͞omz′dā′)n.
Idiom: 1. Judgment Day.
2. An anticipated or feared catastrophic event, especially one on a global scale.
til/until doomsday
For all time; forever.
[Middle English domesday, from Old English dōmes dæg : dōmes, genitive of dōm, judgment; see doom + dæg, day; see day.]
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doomsday
(ˈduːmzˌdeɪ) ordomesday
n
1. (Theology) (sometimes capital) the day on which the Last Judgment will occur
2. any day of reckoning
3. (modifier) characterized by predictions of disaster: doomsday scenario.
[Old English dōmes dæg Judgment Day; related to Old Norse domsdagr]
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dooms•day
(ˈdumzˌdeɪ)n.
the day of the Last Judgment.
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| Noun | 1. |  doomsday - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly livescrack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, end of the world, eschaton, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment New Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible day - some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual" |
| 2. |  doomsday - an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world" |
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doomsday
noun
Quotations
"This is the way the world ends"
"Not with a bang but a whimper" [T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men]
"This is the way the world ends"
"Not with a bang but a whimper" [T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men]
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doomsday
[ˈduːmzdeɪ]B. CPD the doomsday scenario N → la peor de las perspectivas, la perspectiva más catastrófica
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[ˈduːmzdeɪ] n → le Jugement m dernierdoomsday cult n → secte f apocalyptiquedoomsday scenario n → scénario m catastropheCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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