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Definition: Eschatology |
EschatologyNoun1. The branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and judgment; heaven and hell; the end of the world. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eschatology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Eschatology \Es`cha*tol"o*gy\, noun. [Greek expression the furthest, last -logy.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eschatology |
| English words defined with "eschatology": eschatologist. (references) |
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| "Eschatology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eschatology" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eschatology | 115 |
christian eschatology | 4 |
catholic eschatology | 3 |
eschatology jesus weiss | 2 |
covenant eschatology | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eschatology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | eshatologji. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الايمان بالآخرة, الإيمان بالأخرويات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مبحث اخرت , هدف عالی یانهاءی اخرت , گفتاردرمرگ ورستاخیزودوزخ وبهشت , اخرت شناسی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | eschatologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εσχατολογία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חזון אחרית "ימים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | eszkatológia, végsõ dolgok tana. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | eskatologi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | escatologia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 終末論 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうまつろ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eschatologyay эсхатология. (various references) grana u teologiji. (various references) escatología (scatology). (various references) eskatologi. (various references) คำสอนในศาสนาที่เกี่ยวกับวิญญา"ของมนุษย์ที่เกี่ยวข้องกับความตาย การพิพากษานรกสวรรค์. (various references) eskatologya, dünyanın sonu ve öbür dünyayı anlatan bilim dalı. (various references) есхатологія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | eskhatos. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Eschatology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: echatology, ecshatology, escathology, escatology, escgatology, eschathology, eschatologies, eschatologoy, eschtology, eshatology, exchatology. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "eschatology" (pronounced 'Es`cha*tol"o*gy'): Aciurgy, Acology, Actinology, Adenology, Aerolithology, Aerology, Agnoiology, Agriology, Agrostology, Aitiology, Alethiology, Algology, Allotriophagy, Alogy, Amphibiology, Amphibology, Anagogy, Analogy, Anemology, Angelology, Angiology, Anthology, Anthropology, Anthropophagy, Antilogy, Apiology, Arachnology, Archaeology, Archelogy, Aretology, Aristology, Arteriology, Arthrology, Assyriology, Astrolithology, Astrology, Astrometeorology, Astrotheology, Atheology, Atmology, Atmospherology, Atomology, Autophagy, Bacteriology, Baggy, Balneology, Barology, Battology, Bibliology, Bibliopegy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-l-o-o-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: scatology. | |
-3 letters: acolytes, cetology, chastely, chayotes, cholates, eschalot, ethology, oothecal, theologs, theology. | |
-4 letters: acetyls, acolyte, cahoots, chalets, chayote, cholate, choosey, clothes, coolest, coolths, coyotes, cytosol, ecology, galoots, galoshe, gasohol, gelatos, ghastly, ghostly, goloshe, hostage, lactose, latches, legatos, loaches, loathes, locates, ocelots, oocytes, ootheca, satchel, soothly, talcose, theolog. | |
-5 letters: acetyl, aglets, cahoot, cashoo, castle, chalet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-h-l-o-o-s-t-y" | |
+3 letters: metapsychology. | |
+4 letters: geostrophically. | |
+5 letters: electromyographs, eschatologically, metapsychologies, phosphoglycerate. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110011 01100011 01101000 01100001 01110100 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E s c h a t o l o g y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0073 0063 0068 0061 0074 006F 006C 006F 0067 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3985697467868178817391 |
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