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END OF THE WORLD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unpleasant or disastrous destiny
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:
Hypernyms ("end of the world" 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 lives
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 ("end of the world" 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)
Context examples:
Know that many strange nations lie betwixt there and the end of the world.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I don't know what the Bank shares were worth for a little while, said my aunt; cent per cent was the lowest of it, I believe; but the Bank was at the other end of the world, and tumbled into space, for what I know; anyhow, it fell to pieces, and never will and never can pay sixpence; and Betsey's sixpences were all there, and there's an end of them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
