different between shazam vs doom

English

Etymology

Arguably coined by American comic book writer Bill Parker in February 1940, from the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???zæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Interjection

shazam

1. Alternative spelling of shazaam
   • 2008, Tom Bissinger, Da Capo:Selected Writings 1967-2004: Selected Writings 1967-2004, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 91:

     My parents lived in the Last Naïf Age: the last ‘good war’, atoms for peace, and parental philosophy that said children should do and say exactly what we do and say, and Shazam! You'll be us.

   • 2009, K. L. Denman, Me, Myself and Ike, Orca Book Publishers (?ISBN), page 185:

     So I brought you down the trail on the sled, put you in my car and, shazam, here we are.

References

Anagrams

• hamzas

English

Etymology

From Middle English dome, dom, from Old English d?m (“judgement”), from Proto-Germanic *d?maz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?óh?mos. Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

doom (countable and uncountable, plural dooms)

1. Destiny, especially terrible.
2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
4. (countable, obsolete) A law.
5. (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
6. (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
   • 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People

     The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
7. Death.

   They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
8. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

Antonyms

• (undesirable fate): fortune

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• deem
• -dom

Translations

Verb

doom (third-person singular simple present dooms, present participle dooming, simple past and past participle doomed)

1. (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.

   • Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
3. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
4. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
5. (archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

Translations

See also

• doomsday
• doomsaying
• damn

Anagrams

• Odom, mood

Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

doom (definite form doom ji)

1. child, offspring
2. seed