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Doomsday   /dˈumzdˌeɪ/   Listen
Doomsday

noun
1.
(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.  Synonyms: 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.
2.
An unpleasant or disastrous destiny.  Synonyms: day of reckoning, doom, end of the world.  "That's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"



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"Doomsday" Quotes from Famous Books



... lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spencer to make room For Shakespear, in your threefold, fourfold Tomb, To lodge all four in one Bed make a shift Until Doomsday, for hardly will a fifth Betwixt this day and that, by Fates be slain For whom your Curtains may be drawn again. If your precedency in Death do bar A fourth place in your sacred Sepulcher, Under this sacred Marble of thine ...
— The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) • William Winstanley

... Richard Hare, significantly. "The truth as to what he is may come out, some time. Not that I wish it to come out; the man has done no harm to me, and he may go on poaching with impunity till doomsday for all I care. He ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood

... added half-way up, and rolls of dusty and inflammable parchments increased the constant risk of fire. In 1834 when the houses of Parliament hard by were burnt, watchers were stationed on the roof of the Chapter House, ready to remove the Doomsday Book and other valuable records should the conflagration spread and the safety of {127} this historic building be seriously threatened. So urgent did the danger from fire appear long afterwards to Sir Gilbert Scott, when he was Surveyor of the Abbey fabric, that he prevailed on the ...
— Westminster Abbey • Mrs. A. Murray Smith

... not without the sea. Dreams, wakings, states of deep TURIA sleep, Present, past, future, no more for me, But ever-present, all-flowing I, I, everywhere. Planets, stars, stardust, earth, Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms, Creation's molding furnace, Glaciers of silent x-rays, burning electron floods, Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come, Every blade of grass, myself, mankind, Each particle of universal ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... Burke," he said to Desmond, who showed him the way to the palace, "if we had been within these walls I think we could have held out till doomsday." ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang


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