doom

English Online Dictionary. What means doom‎? What does doom mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

Etymology 1

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.

Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.

Noun

doom (countable and uncountable, plural dooms)

1. Destiny, especially terrible.
2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
3. Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
4. (countable, obsolete) A law.
5. (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
6. (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
7. Death.
8. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “undesirable fate”): fortune

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• deem
• -dom

Translations

Verb

doom (third-person singular simple present dooms, present participle dooming, simple past and past participle doomed)

1. (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
3. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
4. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
5. (archaic, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

Translations

See also

• doomsday
• doomsaying
• damn

Etymology 2

Phrase

doom

2. (Internet slang) Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.

   Alternative form: DOOM

Anagrams

• Odom, mood

Kemi Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian дом (dom). Compare Skolt Sami dom and Kildin Sami до̄ма (dōma).

Noun

doom

1. house, building

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “dōm”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[7], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Middle English

Alternative forms

• doim, dom, dome

Etymology

Inherited from Old English dōm, from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːm/

Noun

doom

1. a judgement, (legal) decision or sentence
2. a decision or order
3. a court or trial issuing judgement
4. final judgement after death
5. justice, rulership, authority

Descendants

• English: doom
• Middle Scots: dome, dume

References

• “dọ̄m, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-15.

Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

doom (definite form doom ji)

1. child, offspring

Noun

doom (definite form doom bi)

1. fruit, seed
2. tablet, pill

References

• Jean-Léopold Diouf (2003) Dictionnaire wolof-français et français-wolof, Éditions KARTHALA, →ISBN, page 109