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END OF THE WORLD

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• END OF THE WORLD (noun)
The noun END OF THE WORLD has 2 senses:

1. (New Testament) day of the Last Judgment when God will decree the fates of all men according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
2. an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

Familiarity information: END OF THE WORLD used as a noun is rare.

• END OF THE WORLD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(New Testament) day of the Last Judgment when God will decree the fates of all men according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

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

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)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

An unpleasant or disastrous destiny

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

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

Context examples:

everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it / that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world

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)

"If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it probably needed fixing anyway."
(English proverb)
"The river won't get dirty just by the dog's bark."
(Afghanistan proverb)
"Smart people are blessed."
(Arabic proverb)
"Postponement is cancellation."
(Dutch proverb)

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