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domesday

domesday is the obsolete form of doomsday.

Meaning of doomsday

Noun

doomsday (countable and uncountable, plural doomsdays)

  1. The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
  2. (Judaism, capitalized, sometimes) Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
  3. Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
  4. Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.

See all 7 meanings of doomsday

Proper noun capitalized: Domesday

Domesday

  1. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Domesday Book.
  2. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Domesday survey.

Forms of domesday

pluraldomesdays

Words formed from domesday

Phrases with domesday

Questions about domesday

What is domesday the obsolete form of?
Domesday is the obsolete form of doomsday.
What part of speech is domesday?
Domesday is a proper noun.

Words near domesday in the dictionary

  1. domepits
  2. Domer
  3. Domerian
  4. Domers
  5. domes
  6. domesday
  7. Domesday Book
  8. Domesday Books
  9. Domesday circuit
  10. Domesday circuits
  11. Domesday survey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: domesday (page history and authors); Domesday (page history and authors); doomsday (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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