doomsday (redirected from Doomsday prediction)

dooms·day  (dmzd)

n.

Judgment Day.

Idiom:

til/until doomsday

For all time; forever.

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[Middle English domesday, from Old English dmes dæg : dmes, genitive of dm, judgment; see doom + dæg, day; see day.]

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doomsday, domesday [ˈduːmzˌdeɪ]

n

1. (Christian Religious Writings / 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]

Thesaurus

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 lives crack 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" doom, end of the world, day of reckoning destiny, fate - an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

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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]

Translations

doomsday [ˈduːmzdeɪ]

A. N → día m del juicio final
till doomsday (fig) → hasta el día del juicio final

B. CPD the doomsday scenario N → la peor de las perspectivas, la perspectiva más catastrófica

doomsday [ˈduːmzdeɪ] n → le Jugement m dernier
doomsday cult n → secte f apocalyptique
doomsday scenario n → scénario m catastrophe

doomsday

n → der Jüngste Tag; … otherwise we’ll be here till doomsday (inf) → … sonst sind wir in zwanzig Jahren noch hier; doomsday cult or group → Weltuntergangssekte f

doomsday [ˈduːmzˌdeɪ] n till doomsday (fig) → fino al giorno del giudizio