滅亡 (metsubou)
downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction
- JLPT N1
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Meaning
滅亡 (めつぼう, metsubou) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
その文明は何千年も前に滅亡した
The civilization was destroyed thousands of years ago.
壇ノ浦で平家滅亡。
The Heike family fell in Dannoura.
人類は滅亡するだろう。
Man would perish.
1573年室町幕府が滅亡。
1573: The Muromachi bakufu fell.
結果、鎌倉幕府は滅亡する。
Eventually, the Kamakura bakufu was overthrown.
核戦争は人類を滅亡させるだろう。
A nuclear war will bring about the destruction of mankind.
もう一度戦争があったら、私達は滅亡するだろう。
Another war, and we will be ruined.
かりに核戦争が起こったとすれば、人類は滅亡するだろう。
If a nuclear war were to break out, mankind would perish.
滅亡の危機に瀕した地球を守ろうと、ある基金が設立された。
A fund was set up with a view to preserving our endangered planet.
４７５年はローマ帝国の「衰退」を示す年ではあっても、「滅亡」を意味する年ではありません。
Although 475AD is the year that shows the 'decline' of the Roman Empire, it is not the year of its 'fall'.
そのため、北条一族の内紛は政局混迷の度合いを深め、やがて正慶2年（1333年）5月の鎌倉幕府滅亡へと繋がっていく。
Therefore, the internal strife in the Hojo clan made the political situation increasingly confusing, leading to the demise of the Kamakura bakufu in May, 1333.
また武田滅亡後に庶民の間で「無情やな国を寂滅（じゃくめつ）することは越後の金の諸行なりけり」という勝頼を嘲る落首がはやったという。
After the fall of the Takeda family, Rakushu became popular among the general public, which read "It is ruthless to destroy a province, being blinded by gold when his prosperity is not permanent as everything else."