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    DOOMSDAY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An unpleasant or disastrous destinyplay

    Example:

    that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world

    Synonyms:

    day of reckoning; doom; doomsday; end of the world

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural events

    Hypernyms ("doomsday" is a kind of...):

    destiny; fate (an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    (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 livesplay

    Synonyms:

    crack of doom; Day of Judgement; Day of Judgment; day of reckoning; Doomsday; end of the world; eschaton; Judgement Day; Judgment Day; Last Day; Last Judgement; Last Judgment

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("Doomsday" is a kind of...):

    day (some point or period in time)

    Domain category:

    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)

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