Last Judgment

Last Judgment

English

Proper noun

Last Judgment

1. The judgement day.

   Synonyms: apocalypse, Final Judgment, Great Assize

   • c. 1801–3, William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”, in The Pickering Manuscript:

     Kill not the moth nor butterfly, / For the last judgement draweth nigh.

   • 1956, Albert Camus, La Chute [The Fall]:

     Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Translations

judgment day

Catalan: juí final m Chinese: Mandarin: 最後的審判／最后的审判 (zuìhòu de shěnpàn) Dutch: laatste oordeel n Finnish: viimeinen tuomio French: jugement dernier (fr) m, jour du jugement m Galician: Xuízo Final m German: Jüngstes Gericht (de) n Greek: Δευτέρα Παρουσία f (Deftéra Parousía) Hungarian: utolsó ítélet, végítélet (hu) Irish: Breithiúnas Deireanach m Italian: Giudizio universale m, Giudizio finale m Japanese: 最後の審判 (さいごのしんぱん, saigo no shinban) Macedonian: Стра́шен суд m (Strášen sud), Су́ден ден m (Súden den) Norwegian: Bokmål: dommedag m Nynorsk: domsdag m, domedag m, dommedag m Old Norse: øfsti dómr Polish: Sąd Ostateczny (pl) m, Sądny Dzień m, Dzień Sądu m Portuguese: Juízo Final (pt) m Russian: Стра́шный суд m (Strášnyj sud), Су́дный день (ru) m (Súdnyj denʹ) Spanish: Juicio Final m Swedish: domedag (sv) c Tagalog: Huling Paghuhukom Turkish: hesap günü, kıyamet (tr), kıyamet günü (tr), mahşer günü (tr)

See also

• crack of doom

Further reading

• Last Judgment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia