Doomsday

Definition: Doomsday

Doomsday

Noun

1. (New Testament) day of the Last Judgment when God will decree the fates of all men according to the good and evil of their earthly lives.

2. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Doomsday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Doomsday

End

Consummation, denouement; finish; (completion); fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination; death; end of all things; finality; eschatology.

Futurity

Noun: futurity, futurition; future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age, approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages, coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life, subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of doom, remote future.

Perpetuity

Adverb: perpetually; Adjective: always, ever, evermore, aye; for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without end, time without end; in secula seculorum; to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the "last syllable of recorded time"; till doomsday; constantly; (very frequently).

Crosswords: Doomsday

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret! (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

Some kinda doomsday machine? (Live and Let Die; writing credit: Tom Mankiewicz)

Doomsday Voyage (1972)

The Doomsday Machine (1967)

Doomsday at Eleven (1963)

Back & Forth Vol. 6: Live Doomsday (2001)

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Doomsday Book (reference)

• Economic Doomsday (reference)

• Reckless Rumors, Misinformation and Doomsday Delusions (reference)

• Robotech: Battlehymn,Force of Arms, Doomsday (reference)

• Superman: The Doomsday Wars (Superman) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 18, Episodes 35 & 36: The Doomsday Machine/ Wolf in the Fold (reference)

• Doctor Who - Four to Doomsday (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 35: The Doomsday Machine (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Y2K Album: A Doomsday Collection For The Coming Crash (reference)

• Operation: Doomsday (reference)

• Star Trek: Newly Recorded Music From Selected Episodes Of The Paramount TV Series (Charlie X, The Carbomite Maneuver, Mudd's Women, The Doomsday Machine) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Doomsday Warrior (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Doomsday was at hand.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Rwanda

The Government continued to watch closely for the development of cult churches after the doomsday cult deaths in Uganda in 2000. Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that authorities detained leaders of suspected groups, and the Government urged such groups to register with the Ministry of Justice. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "Doomsday": Doomsday Book ♦ till doomsday. Additional references.

Beginning with "Doomsday": doomsday-book, doomsday-type.

Albanian

gjyqi i fundit (doom), fundi i botës (apocalypse, doom). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يوم القيامة (the crack of doom), ‏يوم الدينونة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

страшният съд (judgement day, judgment day, the day of judgement, the last inquest). (various references)

Czech

soudný den (doom). (various references)

Farsi 

محشر (Doom), روزقیامت , روزحساب , روزرستاخیر, روزداوری . (various references)

Finnish

tuomiopäivä (day of judgment). (various references)

French

jour du jugement dernier, jour de compte. (various references)

German

weltgericht (last judgment), Tag des jüngsten Gerichts, jüngstes gericht. (various references)

Greek 

ημέρα τησ κρίσησ, ημέρα τησ αποκάλυψησ. (various references)

Hebrew 

יום �"�"ין (day of atonement, judgment day). (various references)

Hungarian

utolsó ítélet (day of doom, day of reckoning, great assize, last assize, last judgement). (various references)

Indonesian

kiamat (destruction, downfall), hari kiamat. (various references)

Italian

giorno del giudizio universale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ドーナツ現象 (Doberman, Dobermann Pinscher, dole queue, dome, domesday, dope check, dope test, doping, Doria, dormer window, dormie, dormie hole, dormitory, dormy, doughnut phenomenon, drug test). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドー� ズデー (domesday). (various references)

Manx

Laa ny Briwnys (Day of Judgement). (various references)

Norwegian

dommedag. (various references)

Pig Latin

oomsdayday

Portuguese

dia do julgamento, dia do juízo (dies irae). (various references)

Romanian

zi de judecatã, sfârşitul lumii, judecata de apoi (the last judgement). (various references)

Russian 

день страшного суда (judgement-day). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sudnji dan (judgement day, judgment day). (various references)

Spanish

día del juicio final (judgement day, judgment day). (various references)

Swedish

domedag (judgement day, judgment day). (various references)

Thai

วันตั�"สินโลก. (various references)

Turkish

kıyamet günü (crack of doom, day of reckoning, judgement day, judgment day, the day of doom, the day of judgement, the day of wrath, the last judgement), kıyamet (pandemonium, resurrection, ruckus, ruction, storm). (various references)

Ukrainian

судний день, кінець світу. (various references)

Vietnamese 

ng� y tận thế ng� y xét xử. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "Doomsday": doomsdayer, doomsdayers, doomsdays. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Doomsday" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Diomedea, Dumsday. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: sodomy.

-3 letters: dados, dodos, dooms, doomy, dyads, mayos, moods, moody, soddy, sodom.

-4 letters: adds, ados, dado, dads, dams, days, dodo, doms, doom, dyad, mads, mayo, mays, moas, mods, mood, moos, odds, soda, soma, soya, yams, yods.

-5 letters: add, ado, ads, ays, dad, dam, day, dom, dos, mad, mas, may, moa, mod, moo, mos, odd.

+1 letter: doomsdays.

+2 letters: doomsdayer.

+3 letters: doomsdayers.

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