ESCHATON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eschaton mean? 

• ESCHATON (noun)
  The noun ESCHATON 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: ESCHATON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESCHATON (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 ("eschaton" 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)