end of the world

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Noun

end of the world

death and destruction of life on Earth, especially human
(idiomatic) any change that seems catastrophic or devastating
You make it sound as though moving house is the end of the world.

Synonyms

end times

Hypernyms

endangerment
extinction

Hyponyms

doomsday
judgement day
Ragnarok
TEOTWAWKI
the end of the world as we know it

Derived terms

world-ending

Related terms

not the end of the world

Translations

end of the world

Arabic: نِهَايَة اَلْعَالَم‎ f (nihāyat al-ʿālam)
Bashkir: ахырызаман (axïrïzaman)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 世界末日 (zh) (shìjiè mòrì), 末日 (zh) (mòrì)
Czech: konec světa m
Esperanto: finiĝo de la mondo
Estonian: maailmalõpp
Finnish: maailmanloppu (fi)
French: fin du monde (fr) f
German: Ende der Welt n; Weltende (in religious context)
Hindi: दुनिया का अंत (duniyā kā ant)

Hungarian: világvége
Japanese: 世界の終り (せかいのおわり, sekai-no owari), 世界の果て (せかいのはて, sekai-no hate), 末つ方 (すえつかた, suetsukata)
Korean: 세계의 끝 (segye-ui kkeut)
Portuguese: fim do mundo m
Russian: коне́ц све́та (ru) m (konéc svéta)
Slovak: koniec sveta
Spanish: fin del mundo m
Swedish: jordens undergång
Turkish: Dünya'nın sonu

any change that seems catastrophic or devastating

Bashkir: ахырызаман (axïrïzaman)
Finnish: maailmanloppu (fi)
German: Weltuntergang (de) m
Russian: коне́ц све́та (ru) m (konéc svéta)

Spanish: fin del mundo m
Swedish: jordens undergång, hela världen
Turkish: dünyanın sonu

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Translations to be checked

Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} heimsendir m
Italian: ^{(please verify)} finimondo (it) m

Romani: ^{(please verify)} lumako agor, ^{(please verify)} lyumako agor
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} sfârşitul lumii

References

“the end of the world” (US) / “the end of the world” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
end of the world at OneLook Dictionary Search