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dooms·day (do̵̅o̅mzdā′)

noun

  1. Judgment Day
  2. any day of reckoning
  3. any catastrophic day

Etymology: ME domesdai < OE domes dæg < domes, gen. of dom, doom + day

doomsday Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • other: Because it causes about other doomsday on the gas triad area driving.

Modifies a noun

  • scenario: Is there a doomsday scenario where the whole thing could crash?
  • cult: Where he was the nominal leader of a doomsday cult who believed aliens would take over the world at the millenium.
  • prediction: Result of the weekend: no rain to speak of, despite all the doomsday predictions.
  • device: More modern folklore suggest that a secret base exists under the mountain holding some kind of doomsday device.
  • machine: Emotions, in Pinker's parlance, are doomsday machines.
doomsday Quotes

Even an attorney of modest talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game ofchance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

—Capote,Truman

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