Definition of doomsday in English:

doomsday

noun ˈduːmzdeɪˈdumzˌdeɪ

1The last day of the world's existence.
Bede believed that the time of doomsday is concealed from mankind
Example sentencesExamples
- Behind these constant rehearsals for doomsday lies a deep paranoia.
- I mean, it would have been doomsday if that happened.
- Ten years later he refined his vision with the gloomily satirical sequel, set almost entirely in a shopping mall the day after doomsday, with zombies as the ultimate docile consumers.
- ‘Greetings from the Nevada Test Site,’ it proclaimed, showing a collage of doomsday clouds floating above a scraggly desert.
- Don't doomsday and alarmist theories need evidence to support their tenability, also?
- But as people have said in the past, there are a lot of teenagers out there who have talked about such things, about doomsday, and they don't carry it out.
- Global warming, they have been telling us for years, will prove to be man's undoing, man creating his own doomsday.
- Even for the urban couch potatoes addicted to the remote, this might not be doomsday.
- And if this situation is allowed to continue, it won't be long before the aggressive human species are the only creatures on the planet and surely that will be the doomsday of planet Earth.
- That it will probably never work is one of those silly technicalities that shouldn't stand in the way of us investing our time and resources in something that we want to believe will protect us from doomsday.
- But those doomsdays were the product of faith; reason always used to say the world will continue.
- It was like doomsday, rendering the local populace helpless as the tsunami leveled both regions' coastal areas in only ten minutes.
- And if that's the case then the scare stories will be just another doomsday that didn't dawn.
- It is happening on some celebrity talk shows and it could be doomsday for channels in the long run.
- You wouldn't expect scientists to agree on how and when doomsday will come, especially when the earth is still a mystery.
- Yet, there are people who argue as if doomsday is near at hand when they confront evidence of such increase.
- The only thing that is ‘inevitable’ is that these preparations for doomsday will waste our time and scare us witless.
- So in the last seven years, doomsday has been pushed back at least 13 years.
- But for those in favour of retaining the current playing season - they are in the majority at present - the return of a winter schedule of matches would be equivalent to doomsday.
- But the media portrayal of its collapse will suggest doomsday is upon us, and to the extent that we typically consult the media today more than ourselves or our neighbours, we are likely to be swept up in the breathless alarm.
1. 1.1 (in religious belief) the day of the Last Judgement.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's the apocalypse, the cataclysm, doomsday, the big firework!
  The opening passage of a thousand-year-old Christian prayer book discovered in Ireland does not say that doomsday is near.
  Since none of the religious leaders seemed impressed by John's ministry, he had dismissed him as a lunatic, just another doomsday prophet, here today and gone tomorrow.
  Many of them lead to mass suicides of some kind with members killing themselves based on their doomsday beliefs.
  Many will see the Asian disaster as portending the advent of doomsday.
  She would go to heaven on doomsday, so therefore why not merry?
  Twain sometimes thought of himself as a modern Noah warning of a doomsday to come.
  It is doubtful at this time that anyone who saw the image simply ignored it, since it resembled a rip or a tear strongly enough to cause predictions of doomsday from every church in the city.
  After the first long sermon preaches a doomsday envisionment of religion, where a vindictive God has nothing but wrath for sinners, he is sure that every word was aimed at him.
  Here was something with an appropriately apocalyptic, doomsday flavour.
2. 1.2 A time or event of crisis or great danger.
  as modifier in all the concern over greenhouse warming, one doomsday scenario stands out
  Example sentencesExamples
  People feel their confidence boosted by that event; it's the experience of hearing a doomsday scenario and finding out it wasn't so bad.
  This conclusion was based on ‘information developed’ that the next doomsday would be within a week.
  A newly discovered asteroid has zero chance of colliding with Earth in 11 years, although preliminary data had suggested such a doomsday scenario was possible, astronomers said this week.
  Thus, the estimated 100,000 mainland visitors on National Day will spell doomsday.
  We won't see big gains for years to come, but perhaps the imbalances we've discussed won't lead to an economic doomsday either.
  The saner elements are likely to sulk and the economists are bound to predict doomsday.
  Even some US writers forecast a potential economic doomsday if current trends continue too long.
  Port managers are working feverishly to prevent a dockside doomsday.
  Recent reports that up to 30,000 jobs could be under threat in the tourism sector in the North West region have been described as being ‘akin to a doomsday scenario’.
  And some lawmakers are calling it a pure doomsday scenario.
  Around the world, investors were terrified of a doomsday scenario.
  The possibility of a doomsday scenario is once again on everyone's mind.
  I'm not really sure how he moves from that point to the doomsday scenario he describes, however.
  Someone said the same thing was happening in New York and Chicago in a pan-American doomsday.
  It's the economic doomsday scenario, inflation at four per cent and interest rates at 6.5 per cent by the end of next year.
  In the latter case, he warned, a doomsday scenario is likely to follow.
  The third doomsday scenario is based on pollution.
  Congress is preparing for a doomsday scenario.
  However, I must question whether the doomsday scenario painted by you and some fellow diarists is at all credible.
  He further contended that this talk of 20,000 extra vehicles was only in the event of a doomsday scenario and was not practical.

Phrases

till doomsday

informal Forever.
we'll be here till doomsday if you go blethering on
Example sentencesExamples
- The frame is adjustable, and made to last until doomsday.
- But I mean, again, we could be speculating from now until doomsday, but there are people who know and it would be appropriate for them to reveal to the world what's going on.
- If you reply to him, you will get another ‘nice’ letter and another and another, until doomsday or until he figures out your address and shows up on your doorstep.
- We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up.
- A golfer can visualize hitting a hole-in-one from now until doomsday without it ever happening.

Origin

Old English dōmes dæg (see doom, day).

Rhymes

Domesday

Definition of doomsday in US English:

doomsday

(also domesday)

nounˈdumzˌdeɪˈdo͞omzˌdā

1The last day of the world's existence.
Example sentencesExamples
- Don't doomsday and alarmist theories need evidence to support their tenability, also?
- The only thing that is ‘inevitable’ is that these preparations for doomsday will waste our time and scare us witless.
- But those doomsdays were the product of faith; reason always used to say the world will continue.
- So in the last seven years, doomsday has been pushed back at least 13 years.
- It was like doomsday, rendering the local populace helpless as the tsunami leveled both regions' coastal areas in only ten minutes.
- Even for the urban couch potatoes addicted to the remote, this might not be doomsday.
- Behind these constant rehearsals for doomsday lies a deep paranoia.
- Global warming, they have been telling us for years, will prove to be man's undoing, man creating his own doomsday.
- That it will probably never work is one of those silly technicalities that shouldn't stand in the way of us investing our time and resources in something that we want to believe will protect us from doomsday.
- But as people have said in the past, there are a lot of teenagers out there who have talked about such things, about doomsday, and they don't carry it out.
- I mean, it would have been doomsday if that happened.
- Yet, there are people who argue as if doomsday is near at hand when they confront evidence of such increase.
- But the media portrayal of its collapse will suggest doomsday is upon us, and to the extent that we typically consult the media today more than ourselves or our neighbours, we are likely to be swept up in the breathless alarm.
- You wouldn't expect scientists to agree on how and when doomsday will come, especially when the earth is still a mystery.
- ‘Greetings from the Nevada Test Site,’ it proclaimed, showing a collage of doomsday clouds floating above a scraggly desert.
- And if this situation is allowed to continue, it won't be long before the aggressive human species are the only creatures on the planet and surely that will be the doomsday of planet Earth.
- Ten years later he refined his vision with the gloomily satirical sequel, set almost entirely in a shopping mall the day after doomsday, with zombies as the ultimate docile consumers.
- But for those in favour of retaining the current playing season - they are in the majority at present - the return of a winter schedule of matches would be equivalent to doomsday.
- And if that's the case then the scare stories will be just another doomsday that didn't dawn.
- It is happening on some celebrity talk shows and it could be doomsday for channels in the long run.
1. 1.1 (in Christian belief) the day of the Last Judgment.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is doubtful at this time that anyone who saw the image simply ignored it, since it resembled a rip or a tear strongly enough to cause predictions of doomsday from every church in the city.
  Many of them lead to mass suicides of some kind with members killing themselves based on their doomsday beliefs.
  She would go to heaven on doomsday, so therefore why not merry?
  It's the apocalypse, the cataclysm, doomsday, the big firework!
  Many will see the Asian disaster as portending the advent of doomsday.
  After the first long sermon preaches a doomsday envisionment of religion, where a vindictive God has nothing but wrath for sinners, he is sure that every word was aimed at him.
  The opening passage of a thousand-year-old Christian prayer book discovered in Ireland does not say that doomsday is near.
  Here was something with an appropriately apocalyptic, doomsday flavour.
  Twain sometimes thought of himself as a modern Noah warning of a doomsday to come.
  Since none of the religious leaders seemed impressed by John's ministry, he had dismissed him as a lunatic, just another doomsday prophet, here today and gone tomorrow.
2. 1.2 A time or event of crisis or great danger.
  as modifier in all the concern over greenhouse warming, one doomsday scenario stands out
  Example sentencesExamples
  We won't see big gains for years to come, but perhaps the imbalances we've discussed won't lead to an economic doomsday either.
  Port managers are working feverishly to prevent a dockside doomsday.
  The possibility of a doomsday scenario is once again on everyone's mind.
  Someone said the same thing was happening in New York and Chicago in a pan-American doomsday.
  Congress is preparing for a doomsday scenario.
  A newly discovered asteroid has zero chance of colliding with Earth in 11 years, although preliminary data had suggested such a doomsday scenario was possible, astronomers said this week.
  In the latter case, he warned, a doomsday scenario is likely to follow.
  And some lawmakers are calling it a pure doomsday scenario.
  This conclusion was based on ‘information developed’ that the next doomsday would be within a week.
  I'm not really sure how he moves from that point to the doomsday scenario he describes, however.
  Thus, the estimated 100,000 mainland visitors on National Day will spell doomsday.
  It's the economic doomsday scenario, inflation at four per cent and interest rates at 6.5 per cent by the end of next year.
  Recent reports that up to 30,000 jobs could be under threat in the tourism sector in the North West region have been described as being ‘akin to a doomsday scenario’.
  He further contended that this talk of 20,000 extra vehicles was only in the event of a doomsday scenario and was not practical.
  People feel their confidence boosted by that event; it's the experience of hearing a doomsday scenario and finding out it wasn't so bad.
  The saner elements are likely to sulk and the economists are bound to predict doomsday.
  Even some US writers forecast a potential economic doomsday if current trends continue too long.
  Around the world, investors were terrified of a doomsday scenario.
  However, I must question whether the doomsday scenario painted by you and some fellow diarists is at all credible.
  The third doomsday scenario is based on pollution.

Phrases

till doomsday

informal Forever.
we'll be here till doomsday if you don't hurry up
Example sentencesExamples
- But I mean, again, we could be speculating from now until doomsday, but there are people who know and it would be appropriate for them to reveal to the world what's going on.
- We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up.
- A golfer can visualize hitting a hole-in-one from now until doomsday without it ever happening.
- The frame is adjustable, and made to last until doomsday.
- If you reply to him, you will get another ‘nice’ letter and another and another, until doomsday or until he figures out your address and shows up on your doorstep.

Origin

Old English dōmes dæg (see doom, day).

单词	doomsday
释义	Definition of doomsday in English: doomsday noun ˈduːmzdeɪˈdumzˌdeɪ 1The last day of the world's existence. Bede believed that the time of doomsday is concealed from mankind Example sentencesExamples Behind these constant rehearsals for doomsday lies a deep paranoia. I mean, it would have been doomsday if that happened. Ten years later he refined his vision with the gloomily satirical sequel, set almost entirely in a shopping mall the day after doomsday, with zombies as the ultimate docile consumers. ‘Greetings from the Nevada Test Site,’ it proclaimed, showing a collage of doomsday clouds floating above a scraggly desert. Don't doomsday and alarmist theories need evidence to support their tenability, also? But as people have said in the past, there are a lot of teenagers out there who have talked about such things, about doomsday, and they don't carry it out. Global warming, they have been telling us for years, will prove to be man's undoing, man creating his own doomsday. Even for the urban couch potatoes addicted to the remote, this might not be doomsday. And if this situation is allowed to continue, it won't be long before the aggressive human species are the only creatures on the planet and surely that will be the doomsday of planet Earth. That it will probably never work is one of those silly technicalities that shouldn't stand in the way of us investing our time and resources in something that we want to believe will protect us from doomsday. But those doomsdays were the product of faith; reason always used to say the world will continue. It was like doomsday, rendering the local populace helpless as the tsunami leveled both regions' coastal areas in only ten minutes. And if that's the case then the scare stories will be just another doomsday that didn't dawn. It is happening on some celebrity talk shows and it could be doomsday for channels in the long run. You wouldn't expect scientists to agree on how and when doomsday will come, especially when the earth is still a mystery. Yet, there are people who argue as if doomsday is near at hand when they confront evidence of such increase. The only thing that is ‘inevitable’ is that these preparations for doomsday will waste our time and scare us witless. So in the last seven years, doomsday has been pushed back at least 13 years. But for those in favour of retaining the current playing season - they are in the majority at present - the return of a winter schedule of matches would be equivalent to doomsday. But the media portrayal of its collapse will suggest doomsday is upon us, and to the extent that we typically consult the media today more than ourselves or our neighbours, we are likely to be swept up in the breathless alarm. 1.1 (in religious belief) the day of the Last Judgement. Example sentencesExamples It's the apocalypse, the cataclysm, doomsday, the big firework! The opening passage of a thousand-year-old Christian prayer book discovered in Ireland does not say that doomsday is near. Since none of the religious leaders seemed impressed by John's ministry, he had dismissed him as a lunatic, just another doomsday prophet, here today and gone tomorrow. Many of them lead to mass suicides of some kind with members killing themselves based on their doomsday beliefs. Many will see the Asian disaster as portending the advent of doomsday. She would go to heaven on doomsday, so therefore why not merry? Twain sometimes thought of himself as a modern Noah warning of a doomsday to come. It is doubtful at this time that anyone who saw the image simply ignored it, since it resembled a rip or a tear strongly enough to cause predictions of doomsday from every church in the city. After the first long sermon preaches a doomsday envisionment of religion, where a vindictive God has nothing but wrath for sinners, he is sure that every word was aimed at him. Here was something with an appropriately apocalyptic, doomsday flavour. 1.2 A time or event of crisis or great danger. as modifier in all the concern over greenhouse warming, one doomsday scenario stands out Example sentencesExamples People feel their confidence boosted by that event; it's the experience of hearing a doomsday scenario and finding out it wasn't so bad. This conclusion was based on ‘information developed’ that the next doomsday would be within a week. A newly discovered asteroid has zero chance of colliding with Earth in 11 years, although preliminary data had suggested such a doomsday scenario was possible, astronomers said this week. Thus, the estimated 100,000 mainland visitors on National Day will spell doomsday. We won't see big gains for years to come, but perhaps the imbalances we've discussed won't lead to an economic doomsday either. The saner elements are likely to sulk and the economists are bound to predict doomsday. Even some US writers forecast a potential economic doomsday if current trends continue too long. Port managers are working feverishly to prevent a dockside doomsday. Recent reports that up to 30,000 jobs could be under threat in the tourism sector in the North West region have been described as being ‘akin to a doomsday scenario’. And some lawmakers are calling it a pure doomsday scenario. Around the world, investors were terrified of a doomsday scenario. The possibility of a doomsday scenario is once again on everyone's mind. I'm not really sure how he moves from that point to the doomsday scenario he describes, however. Someone said the same thing was happening in New York and Chicago in a pan-American doomsday. It's the economic doomsday scenario, inflation at four per cent and interest rates at 6.5 per cent by the end of next year. In the latter case, he warned, a doomsday scenario is likely to follow. The third doomsday scenario is based on pollution. Congress is preparing for a doomsday scenario. However, I must question whether the doomsday scenario painted by you and some fellow diarists is at all credible. He further contended that this talk of 20,000 extra vehicles was only in the event of a doomsday scenario and was not practical. Phrases till doomsday informal Forever. we'll be here till doomsday if you go blethering on Example sentencesExamples The frame is adjustable, and made to last until doomsday. But I mean, again, we could be speculating from now until doomsday, but there are people who know and it would be appropriate for them to reveal to the world what's going on. If you reply to him, you will get another ‘nice’ letter and another and another, until doomsday or until he figures out your address and shows up on your doorstep. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. A golfer can visualize hitting a hole-in-one from now until doomsday without it ever happening. Origin Old English dōmes dæg (see doom, day). Rhymes Domesday noun.1 phr. Definition of doomsday in US English: doomsday (also domesday) nounˈdumzˌdeɪˈdo͞omzˌdā 1The last day of the world's existence. Example sentencesExamples Don't doomsday and alarmist theories need evidence to support their tenability, also? The only thing that is ‘inevitable’ is that these preparations for doomsday will waste our time and scare us witless. But those doomsdays were the product of faith; reason always used to say the world will continue. So in the last seven years, doomsday has been pushed back at least 13 years. It was like doomsday, rendering the local populace helpless as the tsunami leveled both regions' coastal areas in only ten minutes. Even for the urban couch potatoes addicted to the remote, this might not be doomsday. Behind these constant rehearsals for doomsday lies a deep paranoia. Global warming, they have been telling us for years, will prove to be man's undoing, man creating his own doomsday. That it will probably never work is one of those silly technicalities that shouldn't stand in the way of us investing our time and resources in something that we want to believe will protect us from doomsday. But as people have said in the past, there are a lot of teenagers out there who have talked about such things, about doomsday, and they don't carry it out. I mean, it would have been doomsday if that happened. Yet, there are people who argue as if doomsday is near at hand when they confront evidence of such increase. But the media portrayal of its collapse will suggest doomsday is upon us, and to the extent that we typically consult the media today more than ourselves or our neighbours, we are likely to be swept up in the breathless alarm. You wouldn't expect scientists to agree on how and when doomsday will come, especially when the earth is still a mystery. ‘Greetings from the Nevada Test Site,’ it proclaimed, showing a collage of doomsday clouds floating above a scraggly desert. And if this situation is allowed to continue, it won't be long before the aggressive human species are the only creatures on the planet and surely that will be the doomsday of planet Earth. Ten years later he refined his vision with the gloomily satirical sequel, set almost entirely in a shopping mall the day after doomsday, with zombies as the ultimate docile consumers. But for those in favour of retaining the current playing season - they are in the majority at present - the return of a winter schedule of matches would be equivalent to doomsday. And if that's the case then the scare stories will be just another doomsday that didn't dawn. It is happening on some celebrity talk shows and it could be doomsday for channels in the long run. 1.1 (in Christian belief) the day of the Last Judgment. Example sentencesExamples It is doubtful at this time that anyone who saw the image simply ignored it, since it resembled a rip or a tear strongly enough to cause predictions of doomsday from every church in the city. Many of them lead to mass suicides of some kind with members killing themselves based on their doomsday beliefs. She would go to heaven on doomsday, so therefore why not merry? It's the apocalypse, the cataclysm, doomsday, the big firework! Many will see the Asian disaster as portending the advent of doomsday. After the first long sermon preaches a doomsday envisionment of religion, where a vindictive God has nothing but wrath for sinners, he is sure that every word was aimed at him. The opening passage of a thousand-year-old Christian prayer book discovered in Ireland does not say that doomsday is near. Here was something with an appropriately apocalyptic, doomsday flavour. Twain sometimes thought of himself as a modern Noah warning of a doomsday to come. Since none of the religious leaders seemed impressed by John's ministry, he had dismissed him as a lunatic, just another doomsday prophet, here today and gone tomorrow. 1.2 A time or event of crisis or great danger. as modifier in all the concern over greenhouse warming, one doomsday scenario stands out Example sentencesExamples We won't see big gains for years to come, but perhaps the imbalances we've discussed won't lead to an economic doomsday either. Port managers are working feverishly to prevent a dockside doomsday. The possibility of a doomsday scenario is once again on everyone's mind. Someone said the same thing was happening in New York and Chicago in a pan-American doomsday. Congress is preparing for a doomsday scenario. A newly discovered asteroid has zero chance of colliding with Earth in 11 years, although preliminary data had suggested such a doomsday scenario was possible, astronomers said this week. In the latter case, he warned, a doomsday scenario is likely to follow. And some lawmakers are calling it a pure doomsday scenario. This conclusion was based on ‘information developed’ that the next doomsday would be within a week. I'm not really sure how he moves from that point to the doomsday scenario he describes, however. Thus, the estimated 100,000 mainland visitors on National Day will spell doomsday. It's the economic doomsday scenario, inflation at four per cent and interest rates at 6.5 per cent by the end of next year. Recent reports that up to 30,000 jobs could be under threat in the tourism sector in the North West region have been described as being ‘akin to a doomsday scenario’. He further contended that this talk of 20,000 extra vehicles was only in the event of a doomsday scenario and was not practical. People feel their confidence boosted by that event; it's the experience of hearing a doomsday scenario and finding out it wasn't so bad. The saner elements are likely to sulk and the economists are bound to predict doomsday. Even some US writers forecast a potential economic doomsday if current trends continue too long. Around the world, investors were terrified of a doomsday scenario. However, I must question whether the doomsday scenario painted by you and some fellow diarists is at all credible. The third doomsday scenario is based on pollution. Phrases till doomsday informal Forever. we'll be here till doomsday if you don't hurry up Example sentencesExamples But I mean, again, we could be speculating from now until doomsday, but there are people who know and it would be appropriate for them to reveal to the world what's going on. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. A golfer can visualize hitting a hole-in-one from now until doomsday without it ever happening. The frame is adjustable, and made to last until doomsday. If you reply to him, you will get another ‘nice’ letter and another and another, until doomsday or until he figures out your address and shows up on your doorstep. Origin Old English dōmes dæg (see doom, day). noun.1 phr.
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