crack of doom

Questions about crack of doom

What does crack of doom mean?

crack of doom means "(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".

What is another word for crack of doom?

Close synonyms include Judgment Day, Judgement Day, Day of Judgment, Day of Judgement, Doomsday. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crack of doom a common word?

crack of doom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.