eschaton

1. 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

   SynonymsJudgment DayJudgement DayDay of JudgmentDay of JudgementDoomsdayLast JudgmentLast JudgementLast Dayday of reckoningdoomsdaycrack of doomend of the world

   Broaderday

   New Testament

Other forms of eschaton

plural

eschatons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eschaton

What does eschaton mean?

eschaton 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".

How many syllables are in eschaton?

eschaton has 3 syllables: e-scha-ton. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for eschaton?

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 eschaton a common word?

eschaton 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.