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doomsday events

doomsday events is the plural of doomsday event.

Meaning of doomsday event

Noun

doomsday event (plural doomsday events)

  1. An occurrence which causes the end of the universe or which destroys the planet earth; a global cataclysm.
    • The universe will contract and grow hotter until the doomsday event that astronomers have dubbed "the big crunch."1995 April 7, Malcolm W. Browne, “A Research Team Detects Many More Galaxies”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Jul 2008
  2. A localized event causing widespread death or destruction within a specific geographical area.
    • A mysterious occurrence late in the story is the historically factual Tunguska Event, a massive Siberian explosion, probably by an asteroid, in the summer of 1908: a doomsday event caused by an arrival from another realm.2006, Greg Hollingshead, "Let Pynchon be Pynchon" (review of Against the Day by Thomas_Pynchon), Globe and Mail (Toronto), 2 Dec., p. D6
  3. (figuratively) A disastrous occurrence.
    • Protect them against molestation, but if it happens, don't overact and inflate it into a doomsday event.1973, Joseph Church, Understanding Your Child from Birth to Three, →ISBN, page 175

Questions about doomsday events

What is doomsday events the plural of?
Doomsday events is the plural of doomsday event.

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