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doomsdate

noun

Etymology

Blend of doomsday + date.

  1. derived from דֶּקֶל — “date palm”
  2. derived from دَقَل — “variety of date palm”
  3. derived from δάκτυλος — “finger”
  4. derived from datil
  5. derived from dactylus
  6. derived from date
  7. inherited from date
  8. compounded as doomsdate — “doomsday + date”

Definitions

  1. The date of doomsday, or some catastrophic and final event.

    • Many articles emphasize some given doomsdate in the future. I cannot agree with these calculations.
    • The next doomsdate is scheduled for March 21, 2014, when an asteroid will hit the earth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doomsdate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA