"doomsdayer" meaning in English

See doomsdayer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-doomsdayer.wav Forms: doomsdayers [plural]
Etymology: From doomsday + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|doomsday|er|id2=occupation}} doomsday + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} doomsdayer (plural doomsdayers)
  1. Synonym of doomsayer Synonyms: doomsayer [synonym, synonym-of]

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "doomsday",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "occupation"
      },
      "expansion": "doomsday + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From doomsday + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "doomsdayers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "doomsdayer (plural doomsdayers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 July 15, “Leader of Doomsday Cult Admits He Made Mistake”, in The Daily Oklahoman, volume 69, number 192, Oklahoma City, Okla., page 30, column 3:",
          "text": "Someone in a crowd outside the barricaded chalet of the doomsdayers began a rocket-style countdown: “Five, four, three, two, one. …”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 December 21, Tony Chamberlain, “We all love snow games: Some take time to play; others seize chance to panic”, in The Boston Globe, volume 248, number 174, Boston, Mass., page 91:",
          "text": "“No way this one’s going to miss us this time,” burbles one bebooted doomsdayer to another.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 October 31, Ben Swenson, “A female-only dystopia, from the author of ‘Vox’”, in Daily Press, page 6:",
          "text": "For all the dire warnings doomsdayers like to trumpet about imminent societal collapse, reality suggests that we’re pretty far from a precipice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of doomsayer"
      ],
      "id": "en-doomsdayer-en-noun-7M76o8HL",
      "links": [
        [
          "doomsayer",
          "doomsayer#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "doomsayer"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-doomsdayer.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-doomsdayer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-doomsdayer.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-doomsdayer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-doomsdayer.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "doomsdayer"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "doomsday",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "occupation"
      },
      "expansion": "doomsday + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From doomsday + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "doomsdayers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "doomsdayer (plural doomsdayers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 July 15, “Leader of Doomsday Cult Admits He Made Mistake”, in The Daily Oklahoman, volume 69, number 192, Oklahoma City, Okla., page 30, column 3:",
          "text": "Someone in a crowd outside the barricaded chalet of the doomsdayers began a rocket-style countdown: “Five, four, three, two, one. …”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 December 21, Tony Chamberlain, “We all love snow games: Some take time to play; others seize chance to panic”, in The Boston Globe, volume 248, number 174, Boston, Mass., page 91:",
          "text": "“No way this one’s going to miss us this time,” burbles one bebooted doomsdayer to another.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 October 31, Ben Swenson, “A female-only dystopia, from the author of ‘Vox’”, in Daily Press, page 6:",
          "text": "For all the dire warnings doomsdayers like to trumpet about imminent societal collapse, reality suggests that we’re pretty far from a precipice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of doomsayer"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "doomsayer",
          "doomsayer#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "doomsayer"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-doomsdayer.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-doomsdayer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-doomsdayer.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-doomsdayer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-doomsdayer.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "doomsdayer"
}

Download raw JSONL data for doomsdayer meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.