JUDGMENT DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Judgment Day mean? 

• JUDGMENT DAY (noun)
  The noun JUDGMENT DAY has 1 sense:

1. (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

  Familiarity information: JUDGMENT DAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDGMENT DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("Judgment Day" 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)

 Context examples 

But even that refuge proved unavailing, for he was delivered over to the enemy, with a Be gentle with him, John, which struck the culprit with dismay, for when Mamma deserted him, then the judgment day was at hand.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then Van Helsing turned and said gravely; so gravely that I could not help feeling that he was in some way inspired, and was stating things outside himself:—It may be that you may have to bear that mark till God himself see fit, as He most surely shall, on the Judgment Day, to redress all wrongs of the earth and of His children that He has placed thereon.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Pulling her beautiful hair over her face, as the leper of old his mantle, she wailed out:—"Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)