Doomsday
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- (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
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
Word Origin
- Doomsday (n.)
- Old English domes dæg, from domes, genitive of dom (see doom (n.)) + dæg "day" (see day (n.)). In medieval England it was expected when the world's age reached 6,000 years from creation, which was thought to have been in 5200 B.C. Bede, c.720, complained of being pestered by rustici asking him how many years till the sixth millennium ended. There is no evidence for a general panic in the year 1000 C.E. Doomsday machine "bomb powerful enough to wipe out human life on earth" is from 1960.
Example
- 1. But the financial system would remain a doomsday machine .
- 2. Only strict birth control could prevent doomsday .
- 3. So doomsday predictions are premature .
- 4. The photo has surfaced on several mayan doomsday discussion forums .
- 5. Other resorts across the world are offering refuge for those fearing the doomsday predictions .