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Princeton's WordNet

  1. doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the worldverb

    an unpleasant or disastrous destiny

    "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"

  2. destine, fate, doom, designateverb

    decree or designate beforehand

    "She was destined to become a great pianist"

  3. sentence, condemn, doomverb

    pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

    "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

  4. doomverb

    make certain of the failure or destruction of

    "This decision will doom me to lose my position"

Wiktionary

  1. doomnoun

    A law.

  2. doomnoun

    A judgment or decision

  3. doomnoun

    A sentence or penalty for an illegality or type of illegality.

  4. doomnoun

    Death; an adverse or terrible fate, end.

    They met an untimely doom when the mine shaft caved in.

  5. doomnoun

    Destiny, especially adverse.

  6. doomnoun

    An impending severe problem or danger that seems inevitable.

  7. doomnoun

    A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.

  8. doomnoun

    The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation of it.

  9. doomverb

    To condemn to a terrible fate or outcome

  10. Doomnoun

    A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre.

  11. Etymology: From dom, cognate with dómr, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian "dom"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Doomnoun

    Etymology: dom, Saxon; doem, Dutch.

    He’s fled, my lord, and all his pow’rs do yield;
    And humbly thus, with halters on their necks,
    Expect your highness’ doom of life or death. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

    To Satan, first in sin, his doom apply’d,
    Though in mysterious terms, judg’d as then best. John Milton.

    And now, without redemption, all mankind
    Must have been lost, adjudg’d to death and hell
    By doom severe. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii. l. 224.

    In the great day, wherein the secrets of all hearts shall be laid open, no one shall be made to answer for what he knows nothing of; but shall receive his doom, his conscience accusing or excusing him. John Locke.

    Search Windsor-castle, elves within and out:
    Strew good luck, Ouphes, on every sacred room,
    That it may stand ’till the perpetual doom. William Shakespeare.

    Revoke thy doom,
    Or whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,
    I’ll tell thee thou do’st evil. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    If friend or foe, let him be gently used.
    —— Revoke that doom of mercy; for ’tis Clifford. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

    By day the web and loom,
    And homely houshold-task, shall be her doom. John Dryden, Iliad.

    From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom,
    And the same age saw learning fall, and Rome. Alexander Pope.

  2. To DOOMverb

    Etymology: deman, Saxon.

    Him through malice fall’n,
    Father of mercy and grace! thou did’st not doom
    So strictly, but much more to pity incline. John Milton, Par. Lost.

    He may be doom’d to chains, to shame, to death,
    While proud Hippolitus shall mount his throne. Smith.

    Justly th’ impartial fates conspire,
    Dooming that son to be the sire
    Of such another son. George Granville.

    Minos, the strict inquisitor, appears,
    And lives and crimes, with his assessors, hears;
    Round in his urn the blended balls he rolls,
    Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. John Dryden, Æn.

    Have I a tongue to doom my brother’s death?
    And shall that tongue give pardon to a slave? William Shakespeare.

    Fate and the gods, by their supreme command,
    Have doom’d our ships to seek the Latian land. John Dryden, Æn.

    I have no will but what your eyes ordain;
    Destin’d to love, as they are doom’d to reign. George Granville.

Wikipedia

  1. doom

    Doom is a 1993 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by id Software for MS-DOS. Players assume the role of a space marine, popularly known as Doomguy, fighting their way through hordes of invading demons from hell. Id began developing Doom after the release of their previous FPS, Wolfenstein 3D (1992). It emerged from a 3D game engine developed by John Carmack, who wanted to create a science fiction game inspired by Dungeons & Dragons and the films Evil Dead II and Aliens. The first episode, comprising nine levels, was distributed freely as shareware; the full game, with two further episodes, was sold via mail order. An updated version with an additional episode and more difficult levels, The Ultimate Doom, was released in 1995 and sold at retail. Doom is one of the most significant games in video game history, frequently cited as one of the greatest games ever made. It sold an estimated 3.5 million copies by 1999; between 10 and 20 million people are estimated to have played it within two years of launch, and in late 1995, it was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft's then-new operating system, Windows 95. Along with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom helped define the FPS genre and inspired numerous similar games, often called Doom clones. It pioneered online distribution and technologies including 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for custom modifications via packaged WAD files. Its graphic violence and supposed hellish imagery drew controversy from different groups, such as parents and the news. Doom has been ported to numerous platforms. The Doom franchise continued with Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994) and expansion packs including Master Levels for Doom II (1995). The source code was released in 1997 under a proprietary license, and then later in 1999 under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later. Doom 3, a horror game built with the id Tech 4 engine, was released in 2004, followed by a 2005 Doom film. id returned to the fast-paced action of the classic games with the 2016 game Doom and the 2020 sequel Doom Eternal.

ChatGPT

  1. doom

    Doom is a state or foreseeing of inevitable and usually terrible outcome, fate or destruction. It can also refer to a judgement or decree rendered by a court or an authority; often associated with death, catastrophe or any other undesirable end. It is typically used to convey a sense of impending disaster or unavoidable, grim future.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Doomverb

    judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation

  2. Doomverb

    that to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty

  3. Doomverb

    ruin; death

  4. Doomverb

    discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision

  5. Doomverb

    to judge; to estimate or determine as a judge

  6. Doomverb

    to pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death

  7. Doomverb

    to ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine

  8. Doomverb

    to assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion

  9. Doomverb

    to destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate

Wikidata

  1. Doom

    Doom is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter video game by id Software. In Doom, players assume the role of a space marine, popularly known as "Doomguy", who must fight his way through the hordes of invading demons from Hell. The game is divided into three nine-level episodes. The Ultimate Doom, an updated release of the original game featuring the fourth episode, came out in 1995. With one third of the game distributed as shareware, Doom was played by an estimated 10 million people within two years of its release, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture; as a sign of its effect on the industry, games from the mid-1990s boom of first-person shooters are often known simply as "Doom clones". As such, Doom is widely known as one of the most important video games of all time for having popularized the first-person shooter genre, pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for customized additions and modifications via packaged files in a data archive known as "WADs". Its graphic and interactive violence, as well as its satanic imagery, also made it the subject of considerable controversy.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Doom

    dōōm, n. judgment: condemnation: destiny: ruin: final judgment: a picture of the Last Judgment.—v.t. to pronounce judgment on: to sentence: to condemn:—pr.p. dōōm′ing; pa.p. dōōmed.—adjs. Doomed, under sentence; Doom′ful (Spens.), full of doom, ruin, or destructive power.—adv. Dooms (Scot.) very, exceedingly.—ns. Dooms′day, the day of doom, the day when the world will be judged; Dooms′day-book (see Domesday); Dooms′man, one who pronounces doom or sentence, a judge.—Crack of doom, the signal for the final dissolution of all things, the last trump. [A.S. dóm, judgment.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DOOM

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Doom is ranked #28650 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Doom surname appeared 832 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Doom.

    91.9% or 765 total occurrences were White.
    3% or 25 total occurrences were Black.
    2.1% or 18 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.8% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of doom in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of doom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of doom in a Sentence

  1. Florida GOP strategist Rick Wilson:

    I do think he's going to try to reach the American people in a way that tells a story of a very different, optimistic, prospective vision for America, that isn't just the doom and gloom that we tend to get an awful lot of the time on our side.

  2. Joseph de Maistre:

    In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

  3. John Kasich on Sunday:

    I have to do well enough there, and I think I will …. I'll catch fire. And if I catch fire, I think the sky is the limit. Poor showings in both or either of those first two primaries can doom a campaign. The next debate is being hosted by Fox Business and is on January 14. John Kasich on Sunday express optimism that he ’ll be in the main-stage debate and declined to comment on fellow GOP candidate Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul saying he wo n’t compete in the second-tier contest if demoted as a result of FOX Business criteria, which involves rankings in national, Iowa and New Hampshire polls.

  4. Iwitness Truth:

    When the truth is concealed, mistakes are repeated in the future and the ghost of the catastrophic doom of the past resurrect; bringing in it wake the now inevitable doom. Only but the truth was concealed.

  5. Allan Small:

    Everyone was predicting doom and gloom for the banks and look at them, four of the five raised dividends, yes, their loan loss provision are higher, but you've got to expect that.

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  • الموتArabic
  • гибел, орис, участ, обричамBulgarian
  • damnarCatalan, Valencian
  • odsoudit, osudCzech
  • verurteilen, drohendes Unheil, UntergangGerman
  • μοίραGreek
  • condenarSpanish
  • kohtalo, tuomio, loppu, tuomita, kauhuFinnish
  • perte, mort, destin, condamner, ruineFrench
  • ítélet, rendelet, végzet, törvényHungarian
  • giudizio, rovina, condanna, avversità, decisione, presagio, sentenza, penalità, fato, sorte, morteItalian
  • 災難, 判決, 死, 断罪, 滅亡, 運命, 凶運, 宣告, 刑罰Japanese
  • malumLatin
  • ondergangDutch
  • groza, zguba, zagłada, fatumPolish
  • ruínaPortuguese
  • рок, ги́бель, реше́ние, зако́н, пригово́р, кончи́на, осуди́ть, предчу́вствие, обре́чь, фа́тум, смерть, суд, судьба́, декре́т, обрека́ть, у́часть, Стра́шный суд, осужда́тьRussian
  • undergångSwedish
  • பேரழிவுTamil
  • การลงโทษThai
  • 厄運Chinese

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