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Day Of Reckoning

Definition: Day Of Reckoning

Day Of Reckoning

Noun

1. Day when the consequences of misdeeds are felt.

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.
 


Synonyms: Day Of Reckoning

Synonyms: doom (n), doomsday (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Day Of Reckoning

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Revenge

Noun: revenge, revengement; vengeance; avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation; day of reckoning.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Day Of Reckoning

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Mammals, a day of reckoning is coming. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I promise you a day of reckoning that you won't live long enough to never forget. (The Way of the Gun; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie)

Movie/TV Titles

Day of Reckoning (1933)

The Day of Reckoning (1915)

Day of Reckoning (1994)

The Day of Reckoning (1990)

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

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Commercial Usage: Day Of Reckoning

DomainTitle

Books

  • Day of Reckoning (The Baxter Series book #2) (reference)

  • The Day of Reckoning (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 8) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Arc the Lad - Day Of Reckoning (Vol. 6) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Photo Album: Day Of Reckoning

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Hitler's day of reckoning. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Expression: Day Of Reckoning

Expression using "day of reckoning": the day of reckoning. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Day Of Reckoning

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

day of reckoning

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Day Of Reckoning

Language Translations for "day of reckoning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

tilinteon päivä. (various references)

   

German

  

Tag der Abrechnung. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utolsó ítélet (day of doom, doomsday, great assize, last assize, last judgement), leszámolás napja. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

決算日 (settlement day). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

けっさ"び (settlement day). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Turkish

  

kıyamet günü (crack of doom, doomsday, judgement day, judgment day, the day of doom, the day of judgement, the day of wrath, the last judgement), hesaplaşma günü (day of settlement, settling day). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Day Of Reckoning

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-g-i-k-n-n-o-o-r-y"

-4 letters: androgenic, defrocking.

-5 letters: androgyne, cankering, cordoning, crayoning, dackering, darkening, deaconing, deforcing, defraying, donnicker, enforcing, foredoing, ignorance, ordinance, reckoning, recooking, redocking.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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